Comments on: Lots going on … http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/01/27/lots-going-on/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jen http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/01/27/lots-going-on/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Jen Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:15:31 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=255#comment-818 I sent Jill a picture I took of a coif in the MFA's collection, accession number 43.249 that has blue strawberry flowers on it. In fact unlike the current jacket pattern repeat, this coif pattern has two strawberry motifs next to each other, two white roses side by side (two rows up), as well as other clumps of motifs. The other two coifs we looked at had strawberries but no strawberry flowers on them that I could spot. Alas, we can't post these pictures since they are for personal research purposes only, but there are definitely blue small five-petaled flowers directly off a stem of two strawberries. I sent Jill a picture I took of a coif in the MFA’s collection, accession number 43.249 that has blue strawberry flowers on it. In fact unlike the current jacket pattern repeat, this coif pattern has two strawberry motifs next to each other, two white roses side by side (two rows up), as well as other clumps of motifs. The other two coifs we looked at had strawberries but no strawberry flowers on them that I could spot. Alas, we can’t post these pictures since they are for personal research purposes only, but there are definitely blue small five-petaled flowers directly off a stem of two strawberries.

]]> By: Catherine K http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/01/27/lots-going-on/comment-page-1/#comment-816 Catherine K Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:07:12 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=255#comment-816 The sigh of relief when the sampler was opened may have been Wendy's, I'm sure she was holding her breath :). Looked through my files and notes on embroidered coifs and caps and so far no luck on blue strawberry flowers, in fact I haven't really seen another one where the strawberries have flowers. The little coat made from coifs at the MFA has groups of 3 berries but no flowers. Another theory for blue; it was often the color used for the Virgin Mary and the borage flower is usually blue. Strawberrys and Borage were often grown together. The sigh of relief when the sampler was opened may have been Wendy’s, I’m sure she was holding her breath :) .

Looked through my files and notes on embroidered coifs and caps and so far no luck on blue strawberry flowers, in fact I haven’t really seen another one where the strawberries have flowers. The little coat made from coifs at the MFA has groups of 3 berries but no flowers.

Another theory for blue; it was often the color used for the Virgin Mary and the borage flower is usually blue. Strawberrys and Borage were often grown together.

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