Framed textile landscape includes a white felt like background and mesh blue representing water and linen like green to represent land. Includes various pieces of metallic fabric and stitches throughout. Includes an orange grid like mesh within the art and a wood gold frame.
Danish. Traditional work on natural linen incorporating drawn thread work and embroidery in satin-stitch. Relies for its effect on the changes of texture of the embroidery . Design based on stylised flower and plant forms.
Yugoslavian. Sleeveless dress with side seams and hem decorated with red, blue and black embroidery. Tasselled braid belt. From Bosnia. This item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Textile conservation was completed in 2019.
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.
Small blue card folder with the handwritten label 'Cross Stitch'. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design for a peacock in pen and ink on graph paper, and the worked textile in blue thread on white cloth.
Embroidered pattern with different stitches in green, blue, red and pale brown silk thread on white linen. Pinned to white card. Labelled Drawn Fabric.
Yellow folder labelled Canvas Work containing a handwritten explanation of the technique and the materials and a sample with nine shapes (squares and rectangles) in red and yellow wool showing a variety of stitches.
Yellow folder labelled Drawn Fabric Work containing a handwritten explanation of the technique and the materials and a sample with a central design of a tree or flowerand a border with patterns.
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:
Needlepoint depicting a small town with four buildings, roads and trees.
White needle lace (?) square with sections showing different patterns, with border.
White cloth square of counted-thread embroidery with nine different designs in red, black and orange with border.
White drawn thread work square with nine different designs, with border.
11 embroidered designs on differently coloured cloth depicting patterns and stylised plants.
Needlepoint depicting a white hart and flowers on a green background.
Small blue card folder with the handwritten label 'Drawn Fabric'. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design for nine squares in pen and ink on graph paper, and the worked textile.
Small blue card folder with the handwritten label 'Canvas Work'. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design for nine squares with different styles and stitches in pen and ink on graph paper, and the worked textile in blue, green, red and black on white canvas.
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.
Sampler worked on loosely woven cream cotton and wool material. Abstract garden design with large loose straight stitches in variety of yarn types. Shades of green, brown, cream and orange.
Small blue card folder with the hand-label 'Embroidery'. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design for nine squares in pen and ink on graph paper, and the worked textile in blue, white, red, black and green.
Small blue card folder with the hand-written label Patchwork. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design with different shapes in white paper glued into the folder, and the worked textile in patterned fabric with blue, green, red, black and white.
Small blue card folder with a handwritten label 'Assisi Work'. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design for two birds and a tree in pen and ink on graph paper, and the worked textile in blue and 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.
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.
Yellow folder labelled Drawn Thread Work containing a handwritten explanation of the technique and the materials and a sample with a central square and a border.
Red folder tied with blue string with a handwritten label saying ‘Embroidery Stitches’. It contains nine double-page spreads of samples of types of stitches and variations on them, with a list of the stiches shown on the facing page:
Gold coloured embroidered rectangular runner with pulled thread work in centre and delicate embroidery in cream thread. 8 small bows at each short edge and stem stitch along both sides.
Brown, red, blue and gold coloured thread embroidered on a white cotton ground, with white wool part knitted, part caught down with thread. Red edged and mounted in white card.