Embroidery (visual works)

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Shetland design card

Shetland design card

Card with a design on graph paper entitled 'Typical Shetland Design' and the canvas work textile in brown and white wool attached.

Mackie, Mary

Sampler fold-out book

A fold-out book, bound in red fabric, with a white cloth tie around it, embroidered with patterns in red thread. The tie is secured at the back with a red button in the design of spoked wheel and a loop of red thread. On the front cover is an embroidered label with the name 'Mary Mackie' in red thread on a white cloth.

Inside are six 'pages' each with a sample of embroidery attached:

  1. Needlepoint depicting a small town with four buildings, roads and trees.

  2. White needle lace (?) square with sections showing different patterns, with border.

  3. White cloth square of counted-thread embroidery with nine different designs in red, black and orange with border.

  4. White drawn thread work square with nine different designs, with border.

  5. 11 embroidered designs on differently coloured cloth depicting patterns and stylised plants.

  6. Needlepoint depicting a white hart and flowers on a green background.

Mackie, Mary

Sample of Needleweaving

Sample of Needleweaving

Two patterns of needleweaving in white and red thread on white cloth. Pinned to white card. Labelled Needleweaving.

Mackie, Mary

Sample of Drawn Fabric - white

Sample of Drawn Fabric - white

Pattern of drawn thread work of different stitches in white thread on white linen. Pinned to white card. Labelled Drawn Thread, with a note of the stitches used.

Mackie, Mary

Sample of Drawn Fabric - white

Sample of Drawn Fabric - white

Pattern of drawn thread work of different stitches in white thread on white linen. Pinned to white card. Labelled Drawn Fabric, with a note of the stitches used.

Mackie, Mary

Sample of Drawn Fabric - two colours

Sample of Drawn Fabric - two colours

Embroidered pattern with different stitches in blue and pale brown silk thread on white linen. Pinned to white card. Labelled Drawn Fabric, with a note of the stitches used.

Mackie, Mary

Sample of Drawn Fabric - coloured

Sample of Drawn Fabric - coloured

Embroidered pattern with different stitches in green, blue, red and pale brown silk thread on white linen. Pinned to white card. Labelled Drawn Fabric.

Mackie, Mary

Runner

Runner

Greek. Linen runner with typical bird motifs in satin-stitched coloured silks. The same silks are used to make knotted fringes. This item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Textile conservation was completed in 2019.

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Runner

Runner embroidered with three highly stylised (Glasgow Style) flower motifs arising from three leaf motifs below.

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Records relating to Glasgow School of Art Exhibition of Ancient and Modern Needlecraft, 1916

Material includes: typescript list of 1012 items exhibited with descriptions and their purchasers when appropriate, 1916; photographs of individual items exhibited, 1916; financial records relating to the opening ceremony, 1916; printed stationery made for the exhibition, 1916; minutes of the Needlework Exhibition Committee, Oct 1915-Apr 1916; folder of papers relating to the organisation of the Exhibition including stationery, correspondence and a speech/forwarding address by Fra Newbery, 1915-1916.

The Glasgow School of Art

Records of the Glasgow School of Art Modern Embroidery Group, alumni society, Glasgow, Scotland

  • DC 035
  • Collection
  • 1959-1979

Includes:

  • Newsletters and circulars, 1959-1978
  • Membership records, 1960-1974
  • Exhibition records including catalogues, invites, visitors' books, price lists and related correspondence, 1959-1979
  • Press cuttings and notes, 1959-1976.

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

Glasgow School of Art Modern Embroidery Group

Records and textiles of the Needlework Development Scheme

  • NDS
  • Collection
  • 16th century to late 20th century

The collection consists of the surviving papers of the Needlework Development Scheme and over 100 examples of needlework. Of these examples, 28 are from Great Britain and 54 are examples of non-British work including examples from Greece, India, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey and Bosnia. Items include ecclesiatical, domestic, costume, clothing and modern embroideries, tea cosies, funeral pall, clothing, lace work, wall hangings, samplers, linen work and cushion covers.

The surviving papers include a complete inventory of 1012 items that were part of the Needlework Development Scheme prior to its dispersal in 1961. This provides information on the original numbering scheme used for the needlework examples and also provides information on the provenance of each item, although this is not necessarily the creator of the item but the person from whom the item was received, as well as a description of the item itself. There is an inventory of the parts of the collection received by the Glasgow School of Art, insurance details concerning the collection and the correspondence of the Needlework Development Scheme, 1931-1941.

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

The Needlework Development Scheme

Publications of the Needlework Development Scheme

The publications of the Needlework Development Scheme were central to its aims. The two bulletins, "And So to Sew" and "And So to Embroider" published three times a year, were issued free until 1958 until demand led to a charge being levied for orders of over 24 copies. At its height in the 1950s, the scheme spent the current equivalent (2003) of £1 million printing the bulletin and distributing it primarily to school girls as well as other interested parties. Other publications featured accounts of the Scheme's development along with images of selected needleworks or focused on particular themes within the collection, such as Swedish needlework.

The Needlework Development Scheme

Printed page of images featuring embroidery and calligraphy work

Printed page of images featuring embroidery and calligraphy work

Print on photographic paper containing two images of student work. Left: close-up of sample of embroidered cloth depicting a woman bent to water a plant in blue, green and cream thread, bordered with various decorative marks, shapes and images in multicolour. ‘1932’ and ‘JEAN WILSON’ are embroidered above and below the image in lilac thread. Right: image of a page of illuminated poetry (by Janet Begbie) hand-written in black ink and bordered by coloured ink illustrations relating to the poem’s themes of adventure, youth and travel at sea, in blue, green and red, as well as a decorative border in gold, blue, red and black.

Wilson, Jeanne

Pink and black embroidery display

Framed display of pink and black embroidery with beading, with engraved title "Samples and Examples by Anne Knox Arthur, The Glasgow School of Art". Includes label "Embroidery C_Black and Pink" and instruction on back of frame. Due to information in archival documentation, display case can be dated pre-1943.

Arthur, Anne Knox

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