Isabella Rosner

@julieinstitches.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 29, 2023 at 12:45 UTC

Bicycle brooch with movable parts, possibly by Streeter & Co., Ltd (English), mid 1890s. Gold, enamel, diamond (old brilliant cuts) & ruby. Via MFA Boston collections.

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 24, 2023 at 18:20 UTC

I think so! It was found in an English house. I took it to indeed be a misspelling of hen

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 24, 2023 at 18:19 UTC

Thank you!

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 20, 2023 at 15:08 UTC

Thanks! I'm thinking late 17th century so this is v helpful

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 20, 2023 at 14:47 UTC

Other favourites from the Guildhall included Queen Mary’s 1911 coronation dress, a 19th-century chasuble made from recycled medieval orphreys, the master’s crown from circa 1575, and 18th-century fans (2/2)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 20, 2023 at 14:45 UTC

So glad I saw the “Treasures of Gold and Silver Wire” exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery! There’s an amazing selection of items on display, including some favourite textiles like the Fishmongers’ Pall and Bacton Altar Cloth. Here they are with early 17th-century gloves and a burse (1/2)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 20, 2023 at 14:42 UTC

I loved that exhibition too!

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 20, 2023 at 11:21 UTC

Book/print historians, please help! When would you date this to? I have my own ideas but would appreciate yours. Thank you!

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 20, 2023 at 11:19 UTC

Yes! So cool!

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 18, 2023 at 16:29 UTC

Finishing up my Royal School of Needlework presentation about quilts in the RSN collection (online next Wednesday at 7pm UK time! Tickets available on the RSN website!) and thinking about this bad boy, a circa 1825 patchwork dressing gown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 18:24 UTC

We don’t have a platform to order through a website but you can order by emailing specialist@witneyantiques.com

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:19 UTC

…the next five weeks, closing on Monday 18 November. It’s open every day 10am-5pm. The show is accompanied by a full colour, hardback catalogue available for £35 plus shipping, written by Witney Antiques’ Rebecca Scott and myself. The suite is available for sale (8/8)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:19 UTC

Clearly, this suite is SUPER exciting and historically important, a tool through which to learn more about the history of Quakerism, textiles, girls’ education, and life in London.The suite is on display at Witney Antiques in Witney, Oxfordshire in a free exhibition for... (7/8)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:18 UTC

early Quaker girls and women weren’t limited by plainness. Several of the items Hall worked at Shacklewell resemble those worked by Martha Edlin several decades earlier, suggesting that there was a shared needlework style amongst Hackney schoolgirls (6/8)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:17 UTC

The Hall suite helps us deepen our knowledge of 17th-c. needlework, including samplers. It also helps rewrite our understanding of Quaker girls and women and their relationship to the Quaker tenet of plainness. As I discuss in my PhD thesis, when it comes to art making... (5/8)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:15 UTC

Her descendants in the 18th and 19th centuries added their needlework to the suite, including needlebooks, valentines, and a basket made out of pins. This suite closely matches that of Hannah Downes, Elizabeth Hall’s Shacklewell classmate and good friend. Her suite is in the V&A Museum (4/8)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:14 UTC

These objects include but aren’t limited to a pin cushion, bellows purse, set of garters she made for her mother, trinket boxes, and four incredibly rare embroidered nutmegs (which at the time were worth more than their weight in gold) (3/8)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:14 UTC

…over 150 years. It was begun by Elizabeth Hall, a London Quaker girl, at Shacklewell School in 1681. Elizabeth Hall was the mother of important botanist Peter Collinson. All the needlework Hall made as a schoolgirl survives and was housed in the casket she made in 1683 (2/8)

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 11:13 UTC

HUGE NEWS!! One of the most complete sets of early modern English schoolgirl stitching known to exist is on display and for sale at Oxfordshire’s Witney Antiques starting tomorrow. This suite of needlework includes incredibly vibrant, opulent embroidery made by a single Quaker family... (1/8)

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