FRIENDS: A COMMON THREAD:SAMPLERS WITH A QUAKER INFLUENCE
by Carol Humphrey in conjunction with Witney Antiques.
Samplers with a Quaker connection will be featured at the Witney Antiques Showrooms from 4th to 18th October 2008, with an accompanying catalogue, written by Carol Humphrey. It explores the far reaching influence of Quaker teaching of schoolgirl needlework. Included in the exhibition are samplers from well known English Quaker schools such as Ackworth, Milverton and York School, as well as samplers worked under anonymous Quaker tuition. The display includes a rare globe worked at the Westtown School in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Soft bound, 72 pages, $48
 

Witney Antiques: Samplers & Historic Embroideries

This newest booklet from Witney Antiques features 29 samplers and historic needleworks, in full color.
$15.00

A GOLDEN AGE
Rare and Historic Embroideries from the 16th and 17th Centuries

A new exhibition catalogue from Witney Antiques

During the 16th century textiles dominated the furnishings of the great houses of Europe. England and Scotland were no exception to this fashion. A Golden Age of embroidery was to continue to the middle of the 17th century and this exhibition of examples from the period is an opportunity to explore this fascinating and exotic world of images and stories from political, religious and secular sources. In the catalogue and the exhibition, there are a number of very fine embroidered panels including Jephthah and his Daughter, the Judgement of Solomon, the story of Abraham and Judith and Holofernes. There are also caskets, cushions, gloves and hangings, some indicating the symbolic meaning of embroidered motifs used in secular pictures.
33 pages, soft bound
$25.00