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This item will be posted to you by Toni Buckby Studio within 7 days of receiving payment.
| Shipping destination | Cost | Additional items |
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Since 2018 I have been working with blackwork embroidery collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) looking at how contemporary art/craft practice can be used to study, reconstruct, interpret, and present these fragile and inaccessible textiles.
Object T.844-1974 is a linen panel intended to be made up into a coif, a commonly worn tight fitting cap often decorated with embroidery. Carefully examining the distribution of needle holes in this example suggests a rather intriguing proposition - that it had at some point been unpicked.
This linen panel, this unpicked, unstitched coif offers us possibilities, even as it poses questions to which we can never know the answer - who stitched it? why was it unpicked and never stitched again?
The idea then is a simple one - to explore this absence through contemporary embroidery practice by making the unstitched coif design freely available to anyone. You can download a copy of the design at www.blackworkembroidery.org.
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Inspired by T.844-1974 in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, this 16th century embroidery design was originally intended to be made up into a coif, a commonly worn tight fitting cap often decorated with embroidery. The design depicts several small discrete floral motifs, interspersed with various insects, birds, and a squirrel, roughly repeated and mirrored across the panel.
The design measure approximately 44 x 25cm and is printed on a fine 74 TPI linen.
This design is the basis for the collective art project "an unstitched coif..." and you can download a free copy of the pattern at www.blackworkembroidery.org.
Designed by Toni Buckby
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