Georgian Embroidery Patterns in the Lady's Magazine (1770-1819)

TY - JOUR

T1 - Georgian Embroidery Patterns in the Lady's Magazine (1770-1819)

AU - Batchelor, Jennie Elizabeth

N1 - © 2024 The Author(s).

PY - 2024/9/9

Y1 - 2024/9/9

N2 - This article analyses the c. 650 needlework patterns issued in the Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex between 1770 and 1819. The patterns were vital to the periodical’s appeal and materialised important aspects of its ethos. As individual objects, as a collection and as a part of the women’s magazine’s multi-media ecology, the embroidery designs have much to teach us. This substantial material archive provides a wealth of insights into domestic embroidery practice as well as into the fashions, seasonality, transmission, circulation and evolution of needlework designs and amateur embroiderers’ skills across the late Georgian period.

AB - This article analyses the c. 650 needlework patterns issued in the Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex between 1770 and 1819. The patterns were vital to the periodical’s appeal and materialised important aspects of its ethos. As individual objects, as a collection and as a part of the women’s magazine’s multi-media ecology, the embroidery designs have much to teach us. This substantial material archive provides a wealth of insights into domestic embroidery practice as well as into the fashions, seasonality, transmission, circulation and evolution of needlework designs and amateur embroiderers’ skills across the late Georgian period.

U2 - 10.1080/00404969.2024.2363173

DO - 10.1080/00404969.2024.2363173

M3 - Article

SN - 0040-4969

JO - Textile history

JF - Textile history

ER -