Call for Photos
We are doing a bunch of needed tasks as we are experiencing our lull in embroidery effort. All of them are much needed and too long in coming. I hope to get to re-lacing the slate frames soon. Many of them have had their lacing threads break over time and they all need a good strong thread again. One of the things I have been working on is getting together a comprehensive list of the data and ‘collateral’ we have generated and putting it all in one spot. Karen, the Head of Collections at Plimoth is helping me with this task and will assign numbers to them so we can track them for the future. When you are working feverishly from session to session you don’t realize how spread all the ’stuff’ gets. I laugh because soon those two pencils I shaved down with my husband’s wood plane and taped together to allow us to draw the coiling vines with have some important museum number attached to it.
Also, interacting with the rest of the museum community has made me realize how important it is to get our documentation done and in order so we don’t loose anything that scholars will want in the future. We have cutting patterns, muslins, sample books, time sheets, photographs (galore!), video, spangle waste, articles, tools, etc that all might be useful for the future.
We have started to enter the raw stitcher data into our databases and have been trying to make sure we have the correct lists of people who stitched, laced, contributed, and made samples. I will be posting some of these lists periodically to have you all help me make sure there are no omissions – when we are working fast – things do slip through the fingers.
On that note, we realize that many of the stitchers or visitors have taken photos of the progress and general workroom shots. In the interest of having one major collection of photos to use in the future exhibit and for scholars to review, we would greatly appreciate it if those who would wish to share their photos would burn us a CD of them. To make it easier for us to use them in the future, could you place the photos in a folder with the date taken and place your name and address on the CD itself for photographer credit. In the future, we might need to contact you for permission to use the photos in publication on the rare chance. If you have a CD to send, email me at tricia@alum.mit.edu to get the address to send it to and so we know to monitor the mail!
Tricia
