Sewing Edges & Corners

Tina Barseghian

Get a Hobby!: 101 All-Consuming Diversions for Any Lifestyle

In this entertaining, informative guide, journalist and "ReadyMade" contributing editor Tina Barseghian invites readers to explore 101 thoroughly absorbing diversions, from conventional to downright wacky, that will satisfy every taste, talent, and timetable. HarperCollins

Nancy Arthur Hoskins

The Coptic Tapestry Albums and the Archeaologiest of Antinoe, Albert Gayet

Vibrant tapestries of beribboned birds, cantering centaurs, and Dionysian dancers, woven in Coptic Egypt more than a thousand years ago, were artfully arranged in a handsome pair of albums in 1913. Some of the fabrics are shown in unique collage compositions. Sandals, spindles, and a mysterious lock of hair are assembled in a shallow box at the back of one album. Many textiles in this important collection, housed at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, were once joined by warp and weft with those from the Musée du Louvre and other major museums.Nancy Hoskins deftly interweaves the creation of the textiles in the Greco-Roman city of Antinoé, Egypt, with their discovery by the charismatic French archaeologist Albert Gayet (1856-1916). Gayet staged stunning exhibitions of the pieces in Paris at the turn of the century and ultimately gave them to museums or sold them. One collector, Henry Bryon, had his 144 fabrics bound into the two albums featured here.The album pages and covers are illustrated in glowing color, along with archival photographs from Gayet's expeditions. The style, structure, and iconography of each tapestry, tabby, and tablet-woven textile are ...

John Boardman (Author)

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain, Fascicule 15castle Ashby, Northampton