DOI issue:
Nr. 340 (September 1925)
DOI article:Vandercook, John W.: Needlepoint, a revived elegance
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0411
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ENGLISH SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PETIT POINT PANEL In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Needlepoint^ a Revived Elegance
Gur day is marked by Present-day decorators are Today the same compara-
a widespread revival making splendid use of this tive limitation is true—but
of interest in one of delicate needlecraft of many over a wider area a?d within
the most delicate of all turles aao & m°Xe populous cIass-
embroidery. Fifteen years Cen U " The market is crowded,
ago an example, even an un- JoknW. VANDERGOOK Tne chateaus of France
important one, of this now have been ransacked in the
flourishing craft was discoverable only by the national bankruptcy sale which has followed the
most diligent and learned of antiquarians. Today war. Exquisite pieces of petit point and gros
ancient and modern pieces of varying beauty and point which upholstered the furniture of the
value are to be found by nearly anyone nearly seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were ripped
anywhere. The "nearly" is advisable. Needle- off by dealers of greater diligence than taste,
point two hundred years ago, three hundred years Replaced by less faded coverings designed to
ago, and four centuries before that—in every era catch the dulled eyes of the New Aristocracy,
in which it has flourished—was an esoteric pos- these pieces were flung in disregarded piles in
session and a still more limited accomplishment, corners. But their unhappy tenancy was short.
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ENGLISH SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PETIT POINT PANEL In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Needlepoint^ a Revived Elegance
Gur day is marked by Present-day decorators are Today the same compara-
a widespread revival making splendid use of this tive limitation is true—but
of interest in one of delicate needlecraft of many over a wider area a?d within
the most delicate of all turles aao & m°Xe populous cIass-
embroidery. Fifteen years Cen U " The market is crowded,
ago an example, even an un- JoknW. VANDERGOOK Tne chateaus of France
important one, of this now have been ransacked in the
flourishing craft was discoverable only by the national bankruptcy sale which has followed the
most diligent and learned of antiquarians. Today war. Exquisite pieces of petit point and gros
ancient and modern pieces of varying beauty and point which upholstered the furniture of the
value are to be found by nearly anyone nearly seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were ripped
anywhere. The "nearly" is advisable. Needle- off by dealers of greater diligence than taste,
point two hundred years ago, three hundred years Replaced by less faded coverings designed to
ago, and four centuries before that—in every era catch the dulled eyes of the New Aristocracy,
in which it has flourished—was an esoteric pos- these pieces were flung in disregarded piles in
session and a still more limited accomplishment, corners. But their unhappy tenancy was short.
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