A hunter with his dog: template squared for copying in embroidery. Coloured engraving.

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A hunter with his dog: template squared for copying in embroidery. Coloured engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] (Berlin : Hertz & Wegener)

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1 print : engraving, with watercolour and laid on cloth ; image and border 24.4 x 21.4 cm

Lettering

Bears number on top right : 2927 Bears number in left margin : 201

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This engraving has been transferred onto cloth and prepared by ‘squaring’ for embroidering. A guide to which colour thread to apply has been provided by the addition of watercolour swatches along the top edge, and in the image itself. The engraving also bears numbers: in the centre ‘183’, on the top right ‘2927’ and in the left margin ‘201’, possibly references to a sequence in a pattern book. The lettering of the publishers ‘Hertz & Wegener’ in Berlin has been partially obscured by the folded fabric on the bottom edge. Hertz and Wegener were Berlin-based pattern makers active in the 19th century. They produced embroidered pictures known as ‘Berlin wool work’ using wool from Merino sheep in Saxony that was taken to Gotha to be spun and on to Berlin to be dyed. Prior to the introduction of Berlin patterns, it was very rare to find any indication about the choice of colour or threads. Berlin patterns were always coloured by hand at first, until the emergence of industrial printing techniques.

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Wellcome Collection 34814i

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