Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection

The Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection is a research collection of more than 1200 volumes on textiles and decorative art subjects, which is held in th
Library
of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

It was assembled over the course of her career by the weaver, textile artist and author Mary Ann Beinecke. The collection contains items spanning the period from 1550 to the 1970s and holds particular strengths in costume history, handicrafts and textile design. Collection interests include numerous examples of French manufacturers’ sample books of fabrics, lace, ribbons and trims; treatises on textile production; dye manufacturers’ formula books; bound sets of fashion plates; sketchbooks of kimono patterns; and textile sample books offering examples of traditional Japanese design.

Of exceptional note is a rare collection of 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century weavers' pattern books, including several early editions of Nathanael Lumscher'
Weber Kunst- und Bild-Buch
Beautifully illustrated interior decoration books offer glimpses into the trends of the late nineteenth century and many volumes provide rich reference material on the history of subjects encompassing ink, wallpaper, handmade lace, carpet and rug making, and textile production. Crochet, knitting and needlework pattern books provide instruction and inspiration for hand work projects, while informing on the aesthetics of their time. A particular star of the collection is the Sample Book of Trims with its many samples of elaborately beaded appliques, metallic yarn embroidery and elegantly woven ribbon trimmings.

Collection Creation

In the early 1960s, Mary Ann founded Nantucket Looms and then the Nantucket School of Needlery, the only licensed needle arts school in the US. The mission of the School was to train local young women in the needle arts, creating a form of employment which offered to them careers on the island as instructors in the resident School and teachers for the School's Nantucket School of Needlery Home Study Course, which Mary Ann wrote and illustrated in review with them. Support from the Nantucket Historic Trust provided pay and housing for professionals in the textile arts from all over the world to teach needlery at the resident classes. Workshops were offered year round in subjects such as tapestry, weaving, vegetal dye, spinning, bobbin lace, and silk screen printing. Mary Ann began her book collection as a personal research tool and source for her home study courses. The collection was acquired through working with rare book dealers who specialized in her textile and decorative art interests, and was housed and curated in a library at the School. When the School closed in the late 1970s, Mary Ann had moved to Williamstown; the collection was too large to house at home. In the interests of her continued research and the significance of maintaining the entire collection in a single library available to scholars, the Clark Library was selected as the recipient of the collection.

Digitization

In 1977 Mary Ann made a generous donation of the collection to the Clark Art Library, which recently completed a digitization project of the collection, thus making 408 of the volumes freely accessible for research. Volumes included in the digitization project were selected for their rarity, fragility and structural complexity. The collection is supported i
The Clark Digital Collections
The years’ work of the digitization project was completed with federal funding from a generous grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and with funding through the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

Accessibility

The collection is non-circulating, but stacks volumes can be accessed by researchers during the regular working hours as listed on th
Library home page
To access rare volumes researchers are encouraged to telephone
e-mail
or write in advance of their visit; contact information is located on the home page. Collection titles can be viewed in the
Library Catalog

The digitized rare and stacks volumes are available online throug
The Clark Digital Collections
and the a
Internet Archive Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Collection

Notes on the

Royal School of Needlework

"The Decorative Needlework of which so much has
been said and written, of late, is a revival of old-
time industries. Begun in London in 1872, this
conjuration of forgotten needlecraft was chiefly
due to the exertions of a lady moved to pity by the sad
fate of a young governess who was found drowned in the
Thames, desperate after a long struggle for livelihood
in the only career open to her. The idea of creating a
school for needlework of the higher ornamental class, thus
prompted, has directed into a new channel the efforts of
many women disqualified, by delicate health or for other
reasons, for self-support by occupations requiring long continued exertion, mental or physical.

The Royal School of Art Needlework, first established in
a small room over a shop in a side-street, is today a great
and beneficent institution, occupying permanent quarters at
South Kensington. Rare and elaborate specimens of antique
embroidery, with their beautiful designs and multiplicity
of stitches, are there restored or imitated, to decorate the
wealthy homes of modern England; while the fresh designs
of contemporaneous artists are constantly employed in the
production of such examples as those made generally known
in America by the Centennial Exhibition in 1876."
Woman's handiwork in modern homes (1881)

Material culture

The serie
De inlandsche kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indie
by J. E. Jasper and M. Pirngadie describes the material culture of the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) and was first published in 1912
Part I
deals with wicker work, basket weaving, and plaiting
Part II
focuses on weaving, an
Part III
covers batik. The drawings by Mas Pirngadi are in color.

Notes on the illustrator: "Raden Mas Pirgadie was born in Banyumas, west Java, possibly in 1875. As he was from an aristocratic family, he had contact with Dutch residents of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) including the artist F.J. Du Chattel (1856–1917), who taught him to paint with watercolours in 1889. Pirngadie was a very skilled and accurate draftsman, and made illustrations for J.E. Jasper’s monograph on traditional arts and crafts of the Netherland East Indies that was published in 1912. From 1928, he worked for many years at the Bataviasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Batavia Society of Arts and Sciences, now the Museum Nasional) in Batavia (Jakarta). He also designed airmail postaged stamps for the Post en Telegraafdienst (Post and Telegraph Services) of the Netherlands east Indies in 1931. He died in Batavia in 1936.

Pirngadie was a master of Western art techniques and produced naturalistic landscapes, portraits of people, and scenes of folk life. For the artist, the realistic technique was most suitable to express the beauty and images of things around him. His style of portraiture gave prominence to showing the accuracy of form, proportion and character of the object. These qualities made a portrait painting successful, standards which had a strong influence on the next generation of Indonesian artists."
MAS PIRNGADIE (c. 1875–1936)

Jasper, J E
and Mas Pirngadie
De Inlandsche Kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indië
's-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co, 1912
NK1059 J38
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Library

"After Thomas Hope’s publications George Smith’
Collection of Designs
is probably the most important and influential work on design and decoration of the Regency period both in Britain and America. It is evident that George Smith must have had either fairly accurate drawings or personal knowledge of the Duchess Street interiors and furnishings. ‘Hope's designs were put into general circulation by George Smith, the author of a pattern book which quickly followed Hope's publication and had practically the same title: A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808. Little so far is known about Smith’s career. He was a practising craftsman who claimed, without justification it seems, to be upholsterer to the Prince of Wales. There is certainly much emphasis on upholstery in his book, a concession to the growing interest in this branch of interior decoration which was largely due to the increasing output of materials from the factories. This was to be of importance for furniture design, not only in the attempt to relate curtains and window cornices to the various styles which were beginning to affect furniture but also in the thicker padding which was being applied to seats of all kinds with consequent influence on their design’ (Frances Collard, Thomas Hope’s Furniture, in: Thomas Hope, Yale, 2008).

‘Smith took over many of the classical features of Hope's designs. He makes great use of animal monopodia on a variety of pieces, tables, sideboards, chairs and sofas, for instance, of double lotus leaves meeting centrally in legs and stretchers, of winged feet on tables and cabinets, of console supports on tables and seats, and of varied fashionable decorative ornaments such as stars and bolt heads. His chairs in general adopt the straight lines which were considered to have been the distinguishing mark of ancient furniture, thus failing to continue the use of contrasting curves which were such an attractive feature of the ‘Trafalgar’ chair. His Household Furniture undoubtedly kept classical types of furniture very much alive, as did the reissue of Tatham’s Etchings in 1810. But Smith could not possibly match the scholarship which gave precision to many of Hope's designs. ‘Smith also paid great attention to Gothic designs; indeed his book of 1808 presents more illustrations of this style than any previous publication. He claims that Gothic produced ‘a more abundant variety of ornaments and forms than can possibly be obtained in any other style’, and he proceeds to apply his Gothic decoration to every kind of furniture. Herein the fundamental error of designing furniture in historical revivals becomes clear.

Smith's designs are not Gothic at all; they simply show furniture of current fashionable forms with the addition of Gothic ornament - pierced quatrefoils, crockets, pinnacles, pointed arches, etc. copied from medieval buildings The work was published as a complete volume in boards sometime in 1807 for £4 14s 6d or as here ‘elegantly coloured’ at £7 17s 6d. The British Critic for March 1806 advertises the issue in parts each containing 50 plates price £1 11s 6d each, plain; or elegantly coloured, £2. 12s 6d.’ The first group of 50 plates dated Dec. 1st 1804; the second group of 50 dated July 1st 1805 with the remaining plates dated Dec. 1st 1806 and Jan. 1st 1807. The first part with the most Hopean designs was clearly available by 1805 and thus prior to Hope’s own publication and not after as the title-page would seem to indicate."
Marlborough bibliography

See Joy, E. Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th century Furniture Design, 1977; Frances Collard Thomas Hope's Furniture in Thomas Hope Yale University Press, 2008; Abbey Life 71

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External links

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Collection at Internet ArchiveThe Clark Digital CollectionSterling and Francine Clark Art InstituteClark Library

Gallery

File:De inlandsche kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indië.jpg, De inlandsche kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indië (1912)
File:Embroiderytextil00np 0210.jpg, etailEmbroidery and textile designs (1875)
File:Detail. De inlandsche kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indië (1912).jpg, etailDe inlandsche kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indië (1912)
File:Floriated ornament.jpg, Floriated ornament: a series of thirty-one designs (1849)
File:Examples of Chinese ornament.jpg, etailExamples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington museum and other collections (1867)
File:Tapestries of the Vienna imperial court 0057.jpg, etailThe tapestries of the Vienna imperial court (1922)
File:Ladcorationmaroc00lanz 0109.jpg, etailLa décoration marocaine; cinquante-quatre planches accompagnées d'une préface et d'une table descriptive (1924)
File:Swedishtextiles00nord 0135.jpg, etailSwedish textiles (1925)
File:Encyclopdiaoforn00shaw 0179 (1).jpg, etailThe encyclopædia of ornament (1842)
File:Supplement, Latest Paris fashions, presented to the subscribers to the Queen (1877) Page 059.jpg, Supplement, Latest Paris fashions, presented to the subscribers to the Queen (1877) Page 059
File:Artofwilliammorr00vall 0287.jpg, etailThe art of William Morris (1897)
File:Encyclopdiaoforn00shaw 0091.jpg, etailThe encyclopædia of ornament (1842)
File:Peasantartofsubc00mako 0053.jpg, etailPeasant art of subcarpathian Russia (1926)
File:Weavingpatternsa00lyon 0130.jpg, etail etail[Un metier de fabrique, avec la dénomination des diverses objects nécessaires à la fabrication de l'étoffe(1835)
File:Patternbookofsil00np 0086.jpg, etailPattern book of silks and damasks (1700)
File:Peasantartinswit00baud 0127.jpg, etailPeasant art in Switzerland (1924)
File:Oldrarescottisht00stew 0255.jpg, "From a plaid found at Culloden" etailOld and rare Scottish tartans, with historical introduction and descriptive notices (1893)
File:Mthodedecomposit01gras 0239.jpg, etailMéthode de composition ornementale (1905)
File:Ladcorationmural00gusm 0063.jpg, etailLa décoration murale à Pompéi (1924)
File:Ladcorationprimi00rald 0081.jpg, etailLa décoration primitive : Océanie (1922
File:Ladcorationprimi1922rald 0039 (1).jpg, etailLa décoration primitive; Amérique post-Colombienne (1922)
File:Livrededesseinsd00lamb 0131 (1).jpg, etailLivre de desseins d'Alexandre Lambert (1700)
File:Lmentsdecomposit00quni 0323.jpg, etailÉléments de composition décorative; cent thêmes de décoration plane (1912)
File:Kunstgewerbederh00dupo 0087 (1).jpg, etailKunstgewerbe der Hindu (1924)
File:Ideas00desa 0039.jpg, etailIdeas & studies in stencilling & decorating (1927)
File:Ilferronellartei00ferr 0223.jpg, etailIl ferro nell'arte italiana (1910) Cancello nella Sagrestia di S. Pietro Vaticano.
File:Islamischestoffe00staa 0121.jpg, etailIslamische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Gräbern in der Islamischen Kunstabteilung und in der Stoffsammlung des Schlossmuseums (1927)
File:Italianpeasantru00saut 0101.jpg, etailItalian peasant rugs (1923)
File:Hydronbluegrpate00cass 0061.jpg, etail"Hydron blue printed on cotton cloth..." Hydron blue G and R, patented paste 20% and powder (1911)
File:Examplesofchines1867jone 0185.jpg, etailExamples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington museum and other collections (1867)
File:Derornamentensch00dolm 0203.jpg, etailDer Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen (1887)
File:Designintextilef1883ashe 0139.jpg, etailDesign in textile fabrics (1883)
File:Collectionofdesi00smit 0349.jpg, etailCollection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste (1808)
File:Lesaccessoiresdu01alle 0061.jpg, etailLes accessoires du costume et du mobilier depuis le treizième jusqu'au milieu du dixneuvième siècle... Ouvrage contenant 393 phototypies, reproduisant plus de 3.000 documents (1928)
File:Curtains & portières.jpg, etailCurtains & portières (1900)
File:Historyofenglish00sugd 0323.jpg, etailA history of English wallpaper, 1509–1914 (1926)
File:Historyoflace1875pall 0178.jpg, etailA history of lace (1875)
File:Encyclopaediaofc00boss 0073.jpg, etailAn encyclopaedia of colour decoration from the earliest times to the middle of the 19th century (1928)
File:Artembroiderytre00lock 0123.jpg, etailArt embroidery: a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework (1878)
File:Weavingpatternsa00lyon 0020.jpg, etailWeaving pattern and sample book (1900)
File:Unmetierdefabriq00ronz 0135.jpg, etailUn metier de fabrique, avec la dénomination des diverses objects nécessaires à la fabrication de l'étoffe (1835)
File:Toffesimprimeset00mous 0043.jpg, etailÉtoffes imprimées et papiers peints (1924)
File:Encyclopdiaoforn00shaw 0231.jpg, etailThe encyclopædia of ornament (1842)
File:Dictionaryofnee03caul 0087 (1).jpg, etailThe dictionary of needlework : an encyclopædia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework ... (1882)
File:Colorprintertrea00earh 0179.jpg, etailThe color printer. A treatise on the use of colors in typographic printing (1892)
File:Bookofdelightful00tuer 0099.jpg, etailThe book of delightful and strange designs; being one hundred facsimile illustrations of the art of the Japanese stencil-cutter, to which the gentle reader is introduced (1893)
File:Artofwilliammorr00vall 0351.jpg, etailThe art of William Morris (1897)
File:Artofilluminatin00tymm 0317.jpg, etailThe art of illuminating as practiced in Europe from the earliest times (1860)
File:Swedishtextiles00nord 0139.jpg, etailSwedish textiles (1925)
File:Orientalcarpetsr00hump 0411.jpg, etailOriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
File:Ornamentaldesign00mois 0113.jpg, etailOrnamental designs (1861)
File:Der Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen (1887), taf 50.jpg, An example of lace from the Italian Renaissance.
File:NK8872 O71 0019.jpg, etailOriental cloth samples.
File:Orientalcloth.jpg, etailOriental cloth samples.
File:Naauwkeurigebesch02munt 0034.jpg, Dipsacus Spinosus Americanus. Naauwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen, waar in de veelerley aart en bijzondere eigenschappen der boomen, heesters, kruyden, bloemen, met haare vrugten, zaden, wortelen en bollen, neevens derzelver waare voort-teeling, gelukkige aanwinning, en heylzaame genees-krachten ... beschreeven worden; (1696)
File:Ilferronellartei00ferr 0047.jpg, etailInsegna dell'Arte della lana. S. Miniato (Firenze) Il ferro nell'arte italiana; (1910)
File:Patternbook.jpg, etailPattern book of silks and damasks (1700)
File:Derornamentensch00dolm 0019.jpg, etailDer Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen (1887)
File:Oldrarescottisht00stew 0163.jpg, Detail. Mac Laine of Lochbuie. Old and rare Scottish tartans, with historical introduction and descriptive notices (1893)
File:Artofweavingbyha1844gilr 0052.jpg, etailThe art of weaving, by hand and by power, : with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times. For the use of manufacturers and others. (1844)
File:Japanesedecoratedsilk 0007.jpg, etailJapanese decorated silk.
File:Treatiseonlacema04brad 0097.jpg, etailA treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work... (1892-[1900])
File:Derornamentensch00dolm 0059.jpg, etailDer Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen (1887)
File:Japanesedecoratedsilk 0016.jpg, etailJapanese decorated silk.
File:Empire01.jpg, etailCollection Empire.
File:Empire02.jpg, etailCollection Empire. In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000743264Images_201304/MAB.31962000743264#page/n19/mode/2up
File:Empire03.jpg, etailCollection Empire. In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000743264Images_201304/MAB.31962000743264#page/n45/mode/2up
File:Bookofdelightful00tuer 0119.jpg, etailThe book of delightful and strange designs; being one hundred facsimile illustrations of the art of the Japanese stencil-cutter, to which the gentle reader is introduced (1893) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/bookofdelightful00tuer#page/n115/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742175 Images 0043 (1).jpg, etail abric sample book(1863) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742175Images/MAB.31962000742175_Images#page/n43/mode/2up
File:MAB.NK1484 U4 Images 0037.jpg, etailDesigns selected from Ukiyoe prints (1860) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.NK1484U4Images_20130423/MAB.NK1484%20U4_Images#page/n37/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742936 Images 0038.jpg, etail ample book of trims(1800) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742936Images/MAB.31962000742936_Images#page/n37/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000745293 Images 0024 (1).jpg, etail"Shinsen Kodaimoyo Kangami." : Nueva serie de modelos de Antiguas telas (1882) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000745293Images/MAB.31962000745293__Images#page/n23/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742555 Images 0033.jpg, etail eaving design book(1890) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742555Images/MAB.31962000742555_Images#page/n33/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742936 Images 0039 (1).jpg, etail ample book of trims(1800) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742936Images/MAB.31962000742936_Images#page/n39/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962004370114 Images 0006.jpg, COMMON HEAL-ALL. Wild flowers of America : flowers of every state in the American Union / by a corps of special artists and botanists (1894) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962004370114Images/MAB.31962004370114_Images#page/n5/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000726566 Images 0025.jpg, etailJapanese designs from Ukiyoe prints (1800) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000726566Images/MAB.31962000726566_Images#page/n25/mode/2up
File:Derornamentensch00dolm 0071.jpg, etailDer Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen (1887) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/derornamentensch00dolm#page/n69/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742936 Images 0056.jpg, etailLobre Frères, Lyon. ample book of trims(1800) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742936Images/MAB.31962000742936_Images#page/n55/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000792055 Images 0015.jpg, etailLace collection, 19th century. In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000792055Images/MAB.31962000792055_Images#page/n15/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742977 Images 0018.jpg, etailPassementeries (1842) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742977Images/MAB.31962000742977_Images#page/n17/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000745293 Images 0013 (1).jpg, etail"Shinsen Kodaimoyo Kangami." : Nueva serie de modelos de Antiguas telas / por Kodama (1882) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000745293Images/MAB.31962000745293__Images#page/n13/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962004370056 Images 0013.jpg, GROUND CHERRY. Wild flowers of America : flowers of every state in the American Union / by a corps of special artists and botanists (1894) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962004370056Images/MAB.31962004370056_Images#page/n13/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000745236 images 0020.jpg, etailJapanese decorated silk (1700) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000745236Images_20130422/MAB.31962000745236__images#page/n19/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000795432 Images 0013.jpg, etailPatterns and designs. In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000795432Images_201305/MAB.31962000795432_Images#page/n13/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000791461 Images 0011.jpg, L'honesto essempio del uertuoso desiderio che hanno le donne di nobil ingegno : circa lo imparare i punti tagliati a fogliami (1550) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000791461Images/MAB.31962000791461_Images#page/n11/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000793137 Images 0057.jpg, Lincoln Lace. Lace instructions,1859 Jan. 22 (1859) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000793137Images/MAB.31962000793137_Images#page/n55/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742977 Images 0061.jpg, etailPassementeries (1842) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742977Images/MAB.31962000742977_Images#page/n61/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000726566 Images 0008.jpg, Japanese designs from Ukiyoe prints (1800) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000726566Images_20130507/MAB.31962000726566_Images#page/n7/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000726541 Images 0040.jpg, apanese designsIn the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000726541Images/MAB.31962000726541__Images#page/n39/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962004370221 Images 0004.jpg, Album de tapisserie / arN. Alexandre & Cie., éditeurs, dessinateurs. Nos. 57, 240, 243, and 250. In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962004370221Images/MAB.31962004370221_Images#page/n3/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000745293 Images 0030.jpg, "Shinsen Kodaimoyo Kangami." : Nueva serie de modelos de Antiguas telas / por Kodama (1882) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000745293Images/MAB.31962000745293__Images#page/n29/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742936 Images 0033.jpg, etailLobre Frères, Lyon. ample book of trims(1800) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742936Images/MAB.31962000742936_Images#page/n33/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962004370049 Images 0011.jpg, Cat-Mint. Wild flowers of America : flowers of every state in the American Union / by a corps of special artists and botanists (1894) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962004370049Images/MAB.31962004370049_Images#page/n11/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000743264 0201.jpg, etailCollection Empire (1900) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000743264Images_201304/MAB.31962000743264#page/n201/mode/2up
File:NK8872 O71 0018.jpg, etailOriental cloth samples. In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/NK8872O71/NK8872%20O71#page/n17/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000794853 Images 0034.jpg, Six steps in tying a scarf. Florence home needle-work (1892) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000794853Images/MAB.31962000794853_Images#page/n33/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742977 Images 0036.jpg, etailPassementeries (1842) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742977Images/MAB.31962000742977_Images#page/n35/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000791701 0003 (1).jpg, Embroidered edgings : job lot offer, ref. 812 (1860) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000791701Images/MAB.31962000791701#page/n3/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742977 Images 0008.jpg, Detail. Passementeries (1842) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742977Images/MAB.31962000742977_Images#page/n7/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962004370221 Images 0006.jpg, Album de tapisserie / arN. Alexandre & Cie., éditeurs, dessinateurs. Nos. 57, 240, 243, and 250 ( .d. In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962004370221Images/MAB.31962004370221_Images#page/n5/mode/2up
File:Derornamentensch00dolm 0125.jpg, etailDer Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen (1887) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/derornamentensch00dolm#page/n123/mode/2up
File:Cognosciteliliaa00pass 0015.jpg, Cognoscite lilia agri quomodo crescent (1614) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/cognosciteliliaa00pass#page/n13/mode/2up
File:Delafabriquedtof00unse 0049.jpg, etailDe la fabrique d'étoffes (1842) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/delafabriquedtof00unse#page/n47/mode/2up

File:Practicalcabinet1910hodg 0181.jpg, Octagon Boudoir—Adams style. The practical cabinet maker ... (1910) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/practicalcabinet1910hodg#page/182/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742977 Images 0066.jpg, etailPassementeries (1842) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742977Images/MAB.31962000742977_Images#page/n65/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000726566 Images 0014.jpg, Japanese designs from Ukiyoe prints (1860?) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000726566Images_20130507/MAB.31962000726566_Images#page/n13/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962000742555 Images 0039.jpg, etail eaving design book(1890) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000742555Images/MAB.31962000742555_Images#page/n39/mode/2up
File:MAB.NK1560 L4 1859 Images 0025.jpg, The Forest Wreath. Leaf and flower pictures, and how to make them (1859) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.NK1560L41859Images_201304/MAB.NK1560%20L4%201859_Images#page/n25/mode/2up
File:MAB.31962004184572 Images 0060.jpg, etailNew products manufactured by Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning, Hoechst on the Main, Germany. (1900) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962004184572Images/MAB.31962004184572_Images#page/n59/mode/2up
File:CAI 107744 0001 Images 0134.jpg, Egypte. Spécimens de la décoration et de l'ornementation au XIXe siècle (872 In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/CAI1077440001Images/CAI_107744_0001_Images#page/n133/mode/2up
File:B11719217 0061.jpg, De la fabrique d'étoffes (1842) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/samplebookoffren00mais/b11719217#page/n61/mode/2up
File:Delafabriquedtof00unse 0077.jpg, etailSample book of French embroidery, 1850? In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/delafabriquedtof00unse#page/n76/mode/1up
File:MAB.31962000745236 images 0023.jpg, Japanese decorated silk (1700) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/MAB.31962000745236Images_20130422/MAB.31962000745236__images#page/n23/mode/2up
File:Frenchfabricsamp00unse 0130 (1).jpg, etailFrench fabric sample book (1900) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/frenchfabricsamp00unse#page/15163/mode/2up
File:Frenchtextiles00unse 0049.jpg, etail rench textiles(1863) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/frenchtextiles00unse#page/n47/mode/2up
File:Frenchsilksample00unse 0204.jpg, etail etail[Silk ribbons and trims(1886) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/silkribbonstrims00elem#page/n79/mode/1up
File:Examplesofchines1867jone 0105.jpg, Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington museum and other collections (1867) In the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library. https://archive.org/stream/examplesofchines1867jone#page/n103/mode/2up

Decorative arts
Embroidery in the United States
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