Tag: museums

  • More is More: cover that surface!

    I’m off this week to see an exhibition of medieval embroidery at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. So you can come too, I’ve compiled some images of this sort of embroidery and some of the books we have about it. These are some of the famous pieces that the museum has put in…

  • The Future, as Imagined in the Past

    So today I got an email from the British Museum, which has several really nifty blogs. http://www.britishmuseum.org/blog.aspx?ref=header Not surprising, because they are a museum full of very nifty things.  Someone on staff had found an article, written in 1969, thinking about how the museum will be for patrons come 2069. Some of the guesses are…

  • Flowery Encouragement

    Here in New York City, spring has been slow to appear.  Bryant Park finally has pansies and daffodils, but it’s still been cold and blustery most of the month.  We thought some embroidered spring flowers would help coax the real ones from their warm ground. The English have a history of being passionate gardeners.  Gardening…