Incredible embroidery … and the unbelievable story behind it …
The linen jacket below was made by Agnes Richter, a seamstress and patient in an Austrian insane asylum during the late 1800′s. During her time there she constructed the jacket from cloth typically used in the institution and embroidered her story onto the jacket.
More (weird) embroidery … surgical suture sampler, circa 18th cen.
And a map sampler by Sarah Ann Drayton, 1805
And the last one is more recent by Mandy Patullo a textile artist and printmaker.
Memento Mori: Absence.
Dawn of LaTouchables // Nov 22, 2012 at 11:03
I’ve seen the jacket exhited in Heidelberg.
Embroidery becomes even more beautiful with age–as it softens and fades, almost like ink…
Marion Pannekoek // Nov 23, 2012 at 09:18
Dawn that must have been pretty impressive and weird too, knowing the story behind it!
Dawn of LaTouchables // Nov 27, 2012 at 10:32
I admit, it was REALLY weird. I first heard about the Richter jacket from a friend who worked at the clinic in which museum the jacket was displayed. The museum collection was the strangest stuff I’ve ever seen.
montserrat lacomba // Nov 30, 2012 at 13:04
New kinds of embroidery always surprise me! Beautiful, I’ll share. Thank you Marion!
Marion Pannekoek // Nov 30, 2012 at 14:10
Thank you Montserrat!