Opening the Doors Onto Early Modern Embroidered Boxes by Dr Isabella Rosner
Автор: SocAntiquaries
Загружено: 2025-10-03
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At the end of their needlework education, many well-off girls in circa 1650-1700 England embroidered tabletop boxes called cabinets or caskets. These boxes, which held everything from sewing and writing supplies to gems and jewellery, are wonderful tools through which to understand girls’ embroidery education and spaces of ownership. This lecture will survey the history of these early modern caskets and cabinets, focusing on the variety of extant boxes, their compositions, and how they served as instruments of ownership, privacy, and agency for their makers and owners. It will also include an exploration of the embroidered cabinet in the Society of Antiquaries’ own collection.
Isabella Rosner is the curator of the Royal School of Needlework and research consultant at Witney Antiques. She is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and author of Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press). Isabella also hosts the successful Sew What? podcast about historic needlework and those often-anonymous individuals who stitched it.
This lecture was sponsored and hosted by the Society of Antiquaries of London in its apartments at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. The Society recorded the proceedings and, with permission of the speaker(s), made them available online here, and on its website at www.sal.org.uk. All rights reserved.
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