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Drawing, Wool Embroidery Design (Berlin Wool Works)
This is a Drawing. It was created by T. P. Devrient. It is dated ca. 1860 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is brush and gouache, pen and black ink over etching on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Democratized embroidery
The first pattern books documenting textile design motifs were published in the first quarter of the sixteenth century, and their proliferation into the nineteenth century allowed the wide dissemination of motifs and patterns used in samplers and other types of embroidery. Eventually, by the nineteenth century, embroidery patterns printed directly onto the foundation fabric were available, thereby eliminating the need to hand-draw the design. Later in the century, in a further mechanization of home embroidery, gridded designs—in which colored squares each indicate one stitch—such as this example became popular. Called Berlin woolwork patterns, they required far less technical ability than traditional free-form embroidery, and served to democratize embroidery.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Democratized embroidery.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt.
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Its dimensions are
23.3 x 16.2 cm (9 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed: "bei T.P. Devrient in Berlin C - No. 305."
Cite this object as
Drawing, Wool Embroidery Design (Berlin Wool Works); T. P. Devrient (active ca. 1860); Germany; brush and gouache, pen and black ink over etching on cream laid paper; 23.3 x 16.2 cm (9 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt; 1947-121-3
