Comments on: Amy Cooper’s Needlework

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:29:10 +0000

I am lost in admiration at the skill displayed here as it is something that I could not do to save my life!! Needles and I just do not get along and needle work lessons at school were sheer hell!!
Reading of other people’s pleasure in sewing makes me think that I have missed out, but then I can draw and paint so I must not complain.

By: Rosemary Hoffman

Rosemary Hoffman — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:59:31 +0000

How beautiful I rmebr my grandma doing lots of embroidery-I have 2 or 3 of the tablecloys she made but nothing like this

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:05:54 +0000

Postscript—
I hope acid-free tissue and an acid-free box will replace the dangerous chocolate box. It would be lovely to stop any deterioration so that these delicate pieces will be enjoyed in another hundred years.

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:03:21 +0000

WOW! The satin stitching of the patterned bands in the second (last) bonnet is superb! Such precision in the repetition of what must have been hand-drawn designs.

Utterly magnificent!

I learned embroidery from my grandmother and mother–taught my daughter; however, schools aren’t including needlework in programs any more. A lost chance to interpret our souls and what we see around us.

What gifts you’ve given to us today—every day. Thank you!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:35:26 +0000

A wonderful and delightful story. Thank you very much for sharing these incredible things with us. Such a delight.

By: Sue Woolston

Sue Woolston — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:25:14 +0000

What a lovely piece of wring with images of beautiful embroidery. I have a feeling my generation may be the last to do fine embroidery. although I didn’t do beadwork, my mother did. I spent hours doing all sorts of work, until my mid thirties when four children took over. I’m now in my seventies and still use the lovely needle case embroidered by my mother although I have no idea where my own went to.

By: Barbara Elsmore

Barbara Elsmore — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:15:11 +0000

Thank you for sharing these very wonderful things with us and telling us something of the story behind them. The fact that they are kept in a 1960s chocolate box just adds another layer to their history. Whose was the hand that last tucked the sewing needles in the beautiful little case with such precision I wonder – could it be Amy Cooper herself

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:10:54 +0000

Beautiful created sewing needlework shown here all hand work, of course practical as well. The rose flower is raised almost in 3D. All done in an age when time was not of the essence. Its just amazing these items have survived and are just perfection for the period. Good housekeeping here by seamstress Amy Cooper and all the custodians who followed on after her, after all its ‘a duty of care’ . Thanks to Gentle Author, Bancroft Library and Tower Hamlets L H L for a job well done. John

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 06:31:26 +0000

Wonderful needlework, so different to the buy-cheap-and-throw-away mentality today. How wonderful that they have been treasured and kept. Valerie