Historical textile and fashion prints for the TRC in Leiden
Over the last few months the TRC has acquired a number of antique prints that will be used to illustrate various mini- exhibitions (actual and digital) as well as publications (notably the Bloomsbury World Encyclopedia of Embroidery), as well as lectures and workshops on the themes of textiles, their production and use.
One of the late 18th century prints (TRC 2023.0004), for example, depicts a woman knitting with four knitting needles, while a cat plays with a ball of knitting yarn and a dog and a parrot look on. The print comes from Costumes de différents pays by the French encyclopaedist Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).
Another group of prints depict various trades in late 17th century Amsterdam from the famous book by Jan Luyken (1649-1712) and his son Casper (1672-1708), called Spiegel van het Menselyk Bedryf (1694, Amsterdam).