Strawberry Flower
Here’s a picture of Wendy’s completed strawberry flower.
I don’t know why the strawberry flowers are blue; and not even pale blue, but BLUE.
Strawberry flowers now are white.
Heehee…another reason to like this blog program – I can put more than one category on a post!
Tags: motifs, strawberry
January 24th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
In Elizabethan embroidery there are often impossible combinatins of flowers growing on the same vine…might they be forget-me-nots?
January 25th, 2008 at 7:01 am
My thoughts are the same as mj’s.
The Jacobeans, like the Elizabethans, loved using emblems, symbols and ’secret signs’ on their attire, and in personal adornment. Only those ‘in the know’ would be able to discern the wearer’s ornamentally subtle messages. Forget-me-nots exemplify fidelity in love, in Christian art; its five petals represent the wounds of Christ. Strawberries, likewise, could be ‘read’ in several ways: as a symbol of good works or the fruits of the spirit. Strawberries and violets represent the Virgin Mary and her attributes of purity and humility. The trefoil leaf represents the Trinity. Perhaps Margaret wore her gorgeous jacket at her marriage…
Two interesting books on the subject are: “a handbook of SYMBOLS in CHRISTIAN ART”, by Gertrude Grace Stil (ISBN o-648-82683-6), and “The Dictionary of Symbols in Western Art”, by Sarah Carr-Gomm (ISBN 0-8160-3326-9).
I love the new format, Jill! Thanks for starting my day on a high note.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
For what it is worth, I think at least two of the coifs we saw at the MFA had blue flowers attached to their strawberries as well. I can double check if you want.