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"Sacred Stitches" accompanies an exhibition that will assemble together for the first time fragments of opulent and unique ecclesiastical textiles drawn from the stored collections at Waddesdon Manor. Dating from c. 1400 to the late 1700s, the textiles were acquired by several members of the Rothschild family, the greatest collectors of the 19th century, who sought the highest quality of workmanship with a keen sense of historical importance. Although it might seem strange for a Jewish family to collect objects associated with the Christian Church, the textiles were prized for their technical and artistic brilliance. Parts of altar frontals, vestments and other church furnishings, they survive as fragments, cushions, banners, as their original purposes were altered to suit tastes and interior styles of the late 1800s.
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Sacred stitches: ecclesiastical textiles in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor
2013, The Rothschild Foundation
in English
0954731034 9780954731038
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"Published to accompany the exhibition Sacred Stitches: Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Waddesdon Manor, 27 March - 27 October 2013"--Title verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 79).
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