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Cornely Stitch Sample from 1920's sample book held in Special Collections at MMU
Thinking back to Indian textiles I have seen in the past I remembered a piece I saw at Platt Hall some years ago and remember being intrigued by the all the chain stitch on it. I now know that this would have been done on the Cornely sewing machine and this is something I can now access. |
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| Label from book |
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| The Sample book at MMU - full of inspiration. |
My research into the Cornely, first led me to the recent book by Jane McKeating and Alice Kettle, 'Machine Stitch Perspectives', which in turn led me to discover the fabric sample books held in the Special Collections at MMU. These books are so inspirational that I will be visiting Special Collections again some time soon to build up a body of research which I can use as a basis for my planned experimentation with this technique.
2 comments:
This is great! I run a chainstitch embroidery machine resource group on yahoo groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chainstitch/
There is quite a bit of information there regarding Cornely machines including instruction manuals, pamphlets, etc. I would be delighted if you would add some of this research to the group.
Hi Maria,
I have alot of machines and information, as I am sure you do, please be in touch.
gab@tcq.co.in
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