{"id":4424,"date":"2019-09-09T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:27:01","slug":"recent-acquisition-belgian-album-douvrages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/recent-acquisition-belgian-album-douvrages\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Acquisition: An Album of Needlework Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Rachel Bohlmann, American History Librarian and Curator<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Album D’Ouvrages<\/em> [album of work] by E. Carlier [Belgium, 1844]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The pages of this 1844 album<\/a> contain not poetry, fiction, or a personal journal, but rather very fine samples of embroidery, sewing, and lace making. Created and assembled by a young Belgian girl, E. Carlier, the album displays her skills. It also shows her abilities in penmanship and calligraphy; she executed a decorative title page for her album, which served as a dedication (to her mother).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mademoiselle Carlier carefully sewed each piece of needlework onto the album\u2019s pages and pasted in a short label written in a neat hand. The first item, which she called simply, \u201cMarque,\u201d is an alphabet sampler. The following pages include an embroidery sampler and sewing exercises, and miniature examples of a shirt, an apron, a dress, a corset, and an embroidered fichu, as well as samples of crochet, knitting, and other lace making.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Up through the middle of the nineteenth century, girls expressed significant accomplishment in needle arts through the form of sampler albums. This one is particularly finely done, but learning to sew and mastering more advanced skills of lacemaking remained an important part of many girls\u2019 education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This item is still in process and does not yet appear in the catalog.<\/p>\n\n\n

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by Rachel Bohlmann, American History Librarian and Curator The pages of this 1844 album contain not poetry, fiction, or a personal journal, but rather very fine samples of embroidery, sewing, and lace making. Created and assembled by a young Belgian girl, E. Carlier, the album displays her skills. It also shows her abilities in penmanship … Continue reading Recent Acquisition: An Album of Needlework Samples<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":4431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75059,75061,12646],"tags":[77938,73938,75749],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-printing-book-arts","category-modern-european-cultures","category-miscellaneous","tag-book","tag-manuscripts","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12015,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/12015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}