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The materials for spinning gold were believed to have come to Northern Europe via England. The German word unze came into use when gold thread in an already spun form was imported via Germany. One source of information quoted by H.O. Hildebrandt in his history of the Swedish Middle Ages 1 comes from a Swedish embroiderer named Lambertus employed by Hans Brask who was made Bishop of Linköping in 1524.
2019-10-25 18:48:20 • By Katrina Finch • 0 comments. Example of gold thread work from Karen Finch’s collection. The following talk was given by Philip Sykas on June 6th 2019 as part of the Early Textiles Study Group’s (ETSG) biennial conference, held in Glasgow and dedicated to the memory of Karen Finch. Click here for more information.
Abstracted in free translation by Karen Finch (1998) from: Sofus Larsen. (1939) Nordisk Guldspinding og Guldbroderi i den tidlige Middelalder. København: Ejnar Munksgaard. Note on the translation: I wish to stress that the information abstracted relates mainly to the practical aspects of making gold thread for weaving and embroidery. Sofus…
The first lecture will introduce you to the structure of the course and to what we hope to achieve, and give a brief history of textile conservation with its particular ethics and the principles to which we work.
May 26, 2022 · Editor’s note The images in the right-hand margin (indicated by red numbers within the text) are the slides Karen displayed while she was delivering the lecture. We have retained Karen’s original numbering, so where slides are missing due to copyright issues some numbers will be non-sequential. Part 1: History 1...
May 8, 2023 · A group of reeds salvaged from the long-established gold lace weavers, Hand and Co. of London, 18 some with lace attached, span setts from 16 up to 45 dents per inch (sees Figs. 5-7). All of the pitch-baulk type, the ends are stamped with both the sett number and the total number of dents.
Here you will find articles, papers and lecture notes written by Karen over the course of her career. We will be adding more of Karen’s writings to this section as and when they become available. If you have any pieces which you feel belong here please get in touch. For...
Appendix 1: Orientation given to first year students. October 1986. Notes by Karen Finch. The subject of textiles is vast – in three years it is not possible to give you more than a surface glimpse of the unending variety of textile objects and how they were made and used.
May 23, 2019 · First published November, 2018 in Textile History. An enormous curiosity about textiles led Karen Finch, who died this year aged 96, on an unusual life journey as a weaver, textile conservator and educator. Born the eldest daughter in a Danish farming family, her presumed fate was marriage, bringing with it land and children, but she was ...
Nov 16, 2018 · Most of the gold you saw at the anniversary celebrations came from Evelyn Birkill. After five years at the V&A I left to get back to weaving and design – but the V&A Textile Department began to refer interesting conservation commissions to me and students began to arrive and my work took another direction.
