Needlework Development Scheme

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  • Manicure Case, Elizabeth Geddes

    Manicure Case, Elizabeth Geddes, 1955. Museum no. CIRC.240-1962

    Manicure Case
    Elizabeth Geddes
    1955
    United Kingdom
    Silk, hand embroidered with silk and gold thread and embellished with glass
    Museum no. CIRC.240-1962

    Elizabeth Geddes trained at Reading Univeristy of Art as a book illustrator and wood engraver, before studying hand and machine embroidery. She did freelance work for the NDS as creative assistand to Iris Hills, 'Expert in Charge'.

  • Tea cosy, Pat Rabbets

    Tea cosy, Pat Rabbets, 1960. Museum no. CIRC.295-1962

    Tea cosy
    Pat Rabbets
    Needlework Development Scheme
    United Kingdom
    1960
    Embroidered cotton
    Museum no. CIRC.295-1962

    A domestic sewing machine has been used to decorate the organdie tea cosy.

  • Book cover, Lesley Miller

    Book cover, Lesley Miller, 1959. Museum no. CIRC.191-1962

    Book cover
    Lesley Miller
    Needlework Development Scheme
    United Kingdom
    1959
    Ribbed silk, hand embroidered with gold and silk thread, gold couching
    Museum no. CIRC.191-1962

    Lesley Miller trained at Glasgow School of Art and was influenced by Swedish folk traditions. Her strong sense of colour and pictoral style was often based on the landscape, and worked in chain stitch.

  • Stole, Beryl Dean

    Stole, Beryl Dean, 1959. Museum no. CIRC.195-1962

    Stole
    Designed by Beryl Dean
    Worked by E. M. Stevens
    1959
    United Kingdom
    Emboirdery in metal thrread on a lurex ground
    Museum no. CIRC.195-1962

    Beryl Dean trained at the Royal School of Needlework and taught at Eastbourne College of Art. She is best known for her ecclesiastical embroidery. She was awarded an MBE for services to embroidery in 1975.

  • Curtain, Susan Riley

    Curtain, Susan Riley, 1959. Museum no. CIRC.293-1962

    Curtain
    Susan Riley
    Needlework Development Scheme
    United Kingdom
    1959
    Machined embroidered organdie with plastic ribbon
    Museum no. CIRC.293-1962

    Susan Riley was a student of Berly Dean. Her work was figurative and closely detailed, reminiscent of fine pen drawing. Riley designed a number of ecclesiastical projects for Beryl Dean's embroidery class at Hammersmith College of Art and Building, including a cope and mitre for St Paul's Cathederal and The Hammersmith Cope.

     

  • Dress & slip, Mary Kessell

    Dress & slip, Mary Kessell, 1949. Museum no. CIRC.334B-1962

    Dress & slip
    Designed by Mary Kessell
    Made by Marion Campbell
    United Kingdom
    1949
    Museum no. CIRC.334B-1962

    Mary Kessell was a painter and war artist who was asked to study embroideries in order to prepare experimental designs for hand and machine work. Her designs were considered so progressive that few arts schools were accomplished enough to use them. Marion Campell was one fo the most successful interpreters of Kessell's motifs in a variety of hand embroidered methods. The motif of camels walking in a row has been interpreted as a decoration for the yoke of a child's dress.