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Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen oder neu- erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch

Helm, Margaretha

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom

This is a printed design for an embroidered patch or kerchief featuring a floral border pattern and motifs. It is from a pattern book for embroidery (about 1725) by Margaretha Helm (neé Mainberger) (born in 1659 in Deiningen, died in 1742 in Nuremberg, Germany). Helm worked in Nuremberg as an embroiderer, a teacher of embroidery and a copperplate engraver who had her designs published by Johann Christoph Weigel. The V&A has a series of pattern books for embroidery in three parts by Margaretha Helm of which this volume is Part I. It is entitled Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen oder neu- erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch or
The Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle or the newly invented Sewing and Embroidery Book .

Details

  • Title: Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen oder neu- erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch
  • Creator: Helm, Margaretha
  • Date Created: 1720/1729
  • Location: Nuremberg
  • Physical Dimensions: Height: 18.7 cm Size of plate., Width: 29.1 cm Size of Plate.
  • Medium: Engraving and etching on laid paper

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