Booking and details
Reserve Your SpotDates Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 6pm
Venue Virtual on Zoom
Tickets Free; registration requested
Duration Approximately 60 minutes
In the final weeks of Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis, learn about Esther’s unique needlework style from Folger Institute Public Humanities Fellows Erin Harvey Moody and Christy Gordon Baty.
Esther Inglis created several books covered with embroidered bindings, and like her calligraphy and painting, her needlework was remarkable but distinctive from other embroiderers of that time. In this virtual gallery talk, Erin and Christy will share their experiences reproducing one of her bindings for the Folger and discuss how her technique and design was as unique to her as a fingerprint.
About the presenters
Erin Harvey Moody is a certified Costume and Textile Collections Manager. Christy Gordon Baty earned her Master’s thesis in History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. They both studied historical embroidery technique at the Royal School of Needlework. Together, Erin and Christy are partners in Relics in Situ. They research 16th- and 17th-century English embroidery and its impact on the lives of women and the wider culture.
Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis
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A behind the scenes look at the creation of a reproduction of one of the embroidered bindings on display in Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis.