Let's have a thread of paintings and portraits depicting women from the 19th century and earlier doing needlework? Embroidery, tatting, knotting shuttles, etc.
I'll share what I have on hand first.
Let's have a thread of paintings and portraits depicting women from the 19th century and earlier doing needlework? Embroidery, tatting, knotting shuttles, etc.
I'll share what I have on hand first.
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Woman Embroidering on the Terrace. By Cristiano Banti
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The Embroidery Lesson - Hugues Merle
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It's a detail from 'The Triumph of Minerva' by Francesco del Cossa, 1467-1470.
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Weird fetish you have there user
Not a fetish, just super into embroidery/needlework myself! I want to try tackling some historical techniques and somehow that led to 'save a bunch of paintings'!
Giacomo Ceruti, 1730s
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