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3
Sep
2010
…a journey to the Schallaburg, through the Wachau and a short walk in Krems…. photo preview :)
Last saturday some friends and I visited the “Schallaburg” and the current exhibition “The Sixties. Beatles, Pill and Revolt” (from 1 Mai until 1 November 2010)
-> Wikipedia information in English (rather short)
-> Wikipedia Information in Deutsch (German, more info)
It was not allowed to take photos of the “The Sixties. Beatles, Pill and Revolt” exhibition but I took some photos of the beautiful castle and any item I found of the long time exhibition…
I took quite many photos of the castle, during our boat trip on the danube through the “Wachau” region and finally some photos during our walk through Krems but still haven’t managed to take a look through all photos and to sort some of them out for my Flickr account – but soon I will do it and than I will upload them to my Flickr account (as usual)…
This 4 photos are just a small preview of the photos I took and which I will upload to my Flickr account – photo 1 & 2 were taken at the Schallaburg, photo 3 during the boat trip and photo 4, showing this beautiful fresco, is just a small preview of a beautiful house in Krems… We also visited the “Karikaturenmuseum” in Krems, but it was not allowed to take photos there…
My friends refused to visit the city museum in Krems and I wished I have had more time to visit the old part of this town – therefore I think that I will visit this town again and take much more photos…
….more photos will follwo soon 
22
Aug
2010
Drachenwald – we have dragons ;) – some project ideas :)
…my mind started working at this project again – imagination is the key and a good collection of photos of medieval purses helps also a little 
I found a painted picture with a trapezoidal purse with “Fransen” (fringes) at the bottom – see the Manesse Liederhandschrift ‘Herr Dietmar von Ast’, the purse on the right – and therefore I am thinking about to add some colored fringes at the bottom like the one found at the bottom of the book pouch on display at the Schloss Gottorf and which technique I described here: …my opinion on the stitches to create this trim… Raca’s 5cents
btw. with the help of Master Giano, who found the book “Webereien und Stickereien des Mittelalters”
– I could support my guess of this technique (page 116 – “Z 30. Fransen.”)
You can find this kind of colored fringes also as a border decoration for big Klosterstich wallhangings (Teppich: Die Wurzel Jesse, Kloster Lüne, dated 1503, vollendet 1505), Klosterstich “Banklaken” (Banklaken des heiligen Bartholomäus, Kloster Lüne, dated 1492), even for woven “Banklaken” (Pelikan-Banklaken, Kloster Lüne, 1500), cross-stitch “Fürleger” (Kloster Lüne, about 1500) …take a look into the small booklet Bildstickereien des Mittelalters in Kloster Lüne. Die bibliophilen Taschenbücher
a very small but also a great book!
I also think about adding a yellow border of yellow wool or silk and to embroider “Drachenwald” – above the embroidery section – and “We have Dragons” underneath the embroidery section… and also to add some small pearl embroidery at the border because I found a photo of a pouch with lovley small pearl (maybe glass bead) embroidery looking like small blossoms…
soooooo many ideas… soon you will see which of this ideas I will realise
31
Jul
2010
Interesting Links – “Wolfgangskasel” dating around 1050 :)
Chris of the blog “Kopert – medieval bookbinding” posted some lovely photos of the “Wolfgangskasel” (chasuble of St. Wolfgang), dating around 1050 – unfortunately for me he took more photos of the tablet-woven band than of the embroidery but the photos are still very interesting (and show some embroidery )
> …”Wolfgangskasel” (chasuble of St. Wolfgang), dating around 1050… <
28
Jul
2010
Interesting Links – lovely piece of 14th century whitework :)
Machteld posted about a lovely piece of 14th century whitework – really very lovely:
“… They have a lovely piece of 14th century whitework on display …”
6
Jul
2010
Interesting Links II :)
Another blog which I follow in my Google Reader is sharon b’s Pin Tangle blog . I love her crazy quilt embroidery very much and also the great information she provides concerning the used embroidery stitches… today following posting catched my eye and I am sure some of you would love to know about it too:
History of a Colour Cochineal Red
Have fun
2
Jul
2010
new book – SchatzKunst 800 bis 1800
Recently I found this big book for a rather small price at a book shop.
Schatzkunst 800 bis 1800
about 400 pages, ISBN 3-932353-54-4
Staatliche Museen Kassel
It covers a rather long period – 800 until 1800 – but you can find some rather interesting items inside – for example:
1) Byzantinischer Goldohrring – early 7th century
2) Abdallah-Löwe (Fatimidischer Brunnenlöwe) – Bildhauer Abdallah – Egypt or Sicily, 10/11th century
3) Romanische Durchbruchsarbeit (Opus interrasile) – Fritzlar or Fulda, about 1060/80
4) Drachenleuchter – Lothringen, 12/13th century (see the first picture on the left)
5) Kruzifikus – Mittelrhein- oder Maasgebiet, 1st half 12th century
6) Handwaschschale – Rhein-Maas-Gebiet, 2nd half 12th century
7) Marien-Diptychon – Paris, about 1320/30, Ivory, carved (see the picture on the right)
Brakteat mit Bildnis Ludwigs IV und Elisabeths von Thüringen – Niederhessen, before 1240, silver
9) Kamee mit Erzengel Michael – Byzantinisch, 1st half 13th century, frame 18th century
10) “Aleppo-Becher” (Islamisches Goldemailglas) – Syria (Aleppo?) or Egypt, 2nd half 13th century
11) Zwei Jagdfässchen – France, 1st half 14th century
12) Minnekästchen – Cologne, about 1350 (see the photo underneath)
13) Einbaumtruhe – Hersfeld, 1st half 15th century
14) Daunscher Willkomm (Hoher Pokal) – Germany, 1st half 15th century, frame 1517 and 1652 (picture on the left)
15) “Die Erde von Indien” (Seladonschale) – China, maybe Longquan, early Ming-time (late 14th/ early 15th century) frame: Mittelrhein about 1434 and 1453
16) Katzenelnbogischer Willkomm (Schenkkammer) – maybe Rheingebiet (Cologne?), 2nd quarter 15th century, before 1453
17) Büste einer Ordensfrau (Heilige Gertrud von Altenberg?) – Fritzlar, middle 14th century, sand stone
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21) “Ahnaberger Altar” – Sog. Meister des Ahnaberger Altars, Niedersachsen, about 1430/40
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23) “Hersfelder Altar” – Nachfolger des Erfurter Regler-Meisters, Erfurt, about 1480
24) Boabdil-Schwert (Maurisches “Jineta”-Schwert) – Granada, Nasrid-Periode, 15th century
25) Geweihtes Papstschwert Wilhelms I. – Hieronymus von Sutri, Rom, 1490
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30) Sickingenbecher – Speyer, 1519
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37) Mundgläser Philipps des Großmütigen und Wilhelms des Weisen – Kelchglas, Hessen, after 1537, Tiefgrünes Waldglas
38) Drei Fadengläser – Francisco Warisco, Kassel, 1583/84, Entfärbtes Fadenglas (vasa a ritorti)
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42) Hutschnur Ludwig IV. zu Oberhessen – Germany, end 16th century
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67) Zwei Doppelkämme – South France, about 1600 (picture on the right)
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22
Jun
2010
new museum photos – “Santorini Museums: Museum of Prehistoric Thira”
…no vacation without at least the visit of one museum – if possible – and this time we visited two museums in Santorin/Fira:
The visit of the “Archaeological Museum” was rather disappointing – no aircondition, few interesting things on display and I wasn’t allowed to take photos of most of the items therefore I refused to take photos of the rest – most of them were similar to the items on display at the “Museum of Prehistoric Thira” and I was allowed to take photos of all items on display there – funny side note: while taking photos I wanted to take a pic of my boyfriend and the staff told me that it’s not allowed to take portrait photos of other people in the rooms of the museum… *lol* ?!? *lol*
You can find all my photos here: Greece, Santorin – Museum of Prehistoric Thira – June 2010
…and here my favourite photos taken at this museum:
10
Jun
2010
Kiriel’s amazing “Textiles” folder on flickr! – addition: guess the embroidery stitches
Addition to my “Kiriel’s amazing “Textiles” folder on flickr! ” posting:
Machteld from “Medieval Silkwork” just posted an addition to my posting:
14th century heraldic pouches: what type of stitch is this?
…and she included some photos of similar pouches she found at the Bildindex – you should really check her posting, if you are interested in this kind of pouches…
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Btw. my ideas – without a detail photo of the stitch – so far:
- Long Arm Cross Stitch (like used at parts of the Gösser Ornat – on display here at the MAK)
- The Stitch like used for the pouch – see photo at the right & my posting “new book – Codex Manesse …lovely hairnets and alms pouch inside “, also used for the Gösser Ornat – sorry, don’t remember the German name for this stitch…
- The Stitch used for an embroidery on display at the ‘Bayrisches Nationalmuseum’ – worked similar like a Satin Stitch – one row worked in one direction, the next one mirrored – this stitch looks very similar to chain stitch
…btw. I attended two embroidery workshops at the bawarian national museum and the lady who hold the workshop pointed out that it definitly isn’t worked in chain stitch and I really can support it – yeah, authors of embroidery books can make mistakes and that’s one…
…and here the photos of this embroidery, including a detail photo:
…it – the blue embroidery – really looks like chain stitch, doesn’t it? …but it isn’t chain stitch!
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I hope I will get more information about the pouch – I especially love the small raised embroidered bars inbetween the embroidery to separate the coat of arms sections, the small birds and the border embroidery… *megasigh*
10
Jun
2010
Kiriel’s amazing “Textiles” folder on flickr! :)
Petit Point bag, ursprünglich hochgeladen von kiriel
Here one of Kiriels lovely photos in her Flickr “Textiles” folder - amazing!
I love this bag! …and there are many more lovely pics to discover
Kiriel, thank you very much for sharing! Love your photos!
Kiriel, thank you very much for sharing! Love your photos!
…btw. this would be a great project, what do you think Tristan? 
Therefore:
If someone of you has further information about this bag, please share it wit me! Pleasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
If someone of you has further information about this bag, please share it wit me! Pleasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
28
Mai
2010
New books – “Gotische Bildteppiche”
Recently I found this lovely little book (ca. 12 x 19 cm) at the second-hand books shelf of one of my favourite bookshops:
Gotische Bildteppiche
by Hans Lang, Parkland Verlag Stuttgart – ISBN 3-88059-156-3, German language
This small book is about the woven 15th century tapestries of the “Das Historische Museum zu Basel” – according to the information given concerning this book at amazon.de
, it is from the year 1980 and unfortunately I couldn’t find an information about this woven tapestries at the website of the museum.
Tafel I – “Edelknecht mit Fabelwesen” (Ausschnitt / detail) – 2nd quarter 15th century
Tafel II – “Edelfräulein mit Fabelwesen” - detail of the tapestry “Teppich mit sechs Fabeltieren”
Tafel III – “Liebespaar propft ein Bäumchen mit Treue” – detail of the tapestry “Baumgarten der Liebe” – 2nd quarter 15th century
Tafel IV – “Dame windet ihrem Liebhaber einen Kranz” – detail of the tapestry “Liebesgarten” – 1460-1470 (see photo unterneath)
Tafel V – “Liebespaar beim Schachspiel” – detail of the tapestry “Liebesgarten (see photo unterneath)
Tafel VI – “Liebespaar beim Kartenspiel” – detail of the tapestry “Liebesgarten
Tafel VII – “Phyllis reitet auf Aristoteles” – detail of the tapestry “Weibermacht – Teppich” – about 1470 (see photo unterneath)
Tafel VIII – “Abschied Herzog Heinrichs von Braunschweig” – detail of “Legende Herzog Heinrichs des Löwen von Braunschweig” – 3rd quarter 15th century
Tafel IX – “Jungfrau mit zwei Fabeltieren” – detail of the tapestry “Fabeltier-Teppich mit Liebespaar” , about 1480
Tafel X – “Einhorn und Hirsch” – detail of the tapestry “Teppich mit symbolischen Fabeltieren in Blumenranken” – about 1480
Tafel XI – “Papagei” – detail of the tapestry “Teppich mit Fabeltieren in Blumenranken”
Tafel XII – “Noli me tangere – Einzug Jesu in Jerusalem” – detail of the tapestry “Klingental-Teppich” – about 1480
Tafel XIII – “König Artus und Karl der Große” – detail of “Folge der neun Helden” – about 1490
Tafel XIV – “Junker mit Wildweibchen” – detail of the tapestry “Falkenjagd” – about 1490
Tafel XVI – “Zelt mit kartenspielendem Liebespaar” – detail of “Liebesgarten mit Minnezelt” – about 1490
Tafel XVII – “Gastmahl des reichen Mannes” – detail of the “Gleichnis des reichen Mannes und des armen Lazarus” – about 1500 (see photo unterneath)
Tafel XVIII – “Vertreibung des armen Lazarus” – detail of the “Lazarus-Teppich”
Tafel XIX – “Tod des Reichen und Streit der Erben” – detail of the “Lazarus-Teppich”
Tafel XIX – “Tod des Reichen und Streit der Erben” – detail of the “Lazarus-Teppich”
…and here a detail of Tafel XV “Wildmann mit Edelfräulein” showing two pouches – for my friend Tristan and his Taschen blog
…a rather small book and just a few pages but with many lovely pictures – please consider that the colors on the photos can differ from the colors of the original tapestries on display at the museum and that normally the colors also lost some of their brilliance during the centuries… but I love old tapestries -as a great inspiration for embroidery projects and as an inspiration for dresses, … (for example the “Minnezelt” of Tafel XVI is very lovely!)
…btw. the book is available for € 0,01 / € 0,48 / € 0,49 /… at amazon.de
19
Mai
2010
SCA visit – Kareina – last day – Kunsthistorisches Museum :)
Finally I managed to have a look through the last photos taken at the “Kunsthistorisches Museum” on the last day of Kareinas stay here in Vienna.
I uploaded the best (704) photos – btw. you can find all (old & new) photos taken at the “Kunsthistorisches Museum” – in this Flickr folder: Austria, Vienna – KHM / Kunsthistorisches Museum.
…and here a really rather small selection of the photos taken at the “Kunsthistorisches Museum”:
18
Mai
2010
SCA visit – Kareina – 2nd weekend – KHM – Neue Burg – more museum photos :)
Again I would like to remind you on my posting SCA visit – Kareina – 1.966 photos in 2 days!!!
“…This weekend we managed to visit the Schatzkammer (treasury), the museums located at the “Neue Burg” (Ephesos Museum, Collection of Arms and Armour and the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments) and also the Kunsthistorisches Museum.…”
Today I uploaded the last photos taken at the “Neue Burg” on Saturday – some additional photos taken at the “Collection of Arms and Armour”, some photos taken at the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments, and last but not least photos taken at the Ephesos Museum.
You can find my Flickr Folders with the (new and also some old) museum photos here:
-> Treasury / Schatzkammer
-> Collection of Arms and Armour
-> Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
-> Ephesos Museum
Let’s start with a small selection of the additional photos of the “Collection of Arms and Armour”:
Kareina proudly presents the – in her opinion – most interesting part of the whole collection
…and some photos taken at the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments:
…and finally some photos taken at the Ephesos Museum:
16
Mai
2010
SCA visit – Kareina – 2nd weekend – KHM – Neue Burg – “Collection of Arms and Armour” II – other lovely items…
Maybe some of you remember my posting SCA visit – Kareina – 1.966 photos in 2 days!!!
“…This weekend we managed to visit the Schatzkammer (treasury), the museums located at the “Neue Burg” (Ephesos Museum, Collection of Arms and Armour and the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments) and also the Kunsthistorisches Museum.…”
I already posted a small selection of the photos taken at the treasury here: SCA visit – Kareina – 2nd weekend – photos Saturday – “Treasury” – my complete ‘treasury’ collection at Flickr: Austria, Vienna – Treasury / Schatzkammer.
After the treasury we also visited the museums located at the “Neue Burg” – here a small selection of the photos taken at the “Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer” / “Collection of Arms and Armour” – you can find all photos taken at the “Collection of Arms and Armour” here: Austria, Vienna – KHM – Neue Burg – Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer.
Part II – other lovely items:
I was very happy to find some lovely items, which were on display at the “Karl der Kühne” / “Charles the Bold” exhibition, back home – especially because it was not allowed to take photos at the “Karl der Kühne” exhibition – therefore I took about double as many photos as I normally would have…
“Jagdtasche, Süddeutsch, um 1430″ / Jagd=hunt , Tasche=bag, south Germany, about 1430 – btw. you can see one of the detail photos on top of this posting.
…here some of the lovely details of this bag:
“Prunksattel, Süddeutsch, um 1455″ / Prunk=parade/splendour, Sattel=saddle, south Germany, about 1455.
“Prunksattel, Südostdeutsch 1438-1439″ / Prunk=parade/splendour, Sattel=saddle, south east Germany, 1438-1439.
…and I love dragons
“Gürteltasche, Süddeutsch, um 1550″ / Gürtel=belt/girdle, Tasche=bag, south Germany, about 1550.
“Federspiel, Süddeutsch, um 1550″ / Feder=feather, Spiel=game, south Germany, about 1550.
“Trinkflasche, Türkisch, 1581″ / Trink=(to) drink, Flasche=bottle, Turkish, 1581.
16
Mai
2010
SCA visit – Kareina – 2nd weekend – KHM – Neue Burg – “Collection of Arms and Armour” I – armour
Maybe some of you remember my posting SCA visit – Kareina – 1.966 photos in 2 days!!!
“…This weekend we managed to visit the Schatzkammer (treasury), the museums located at the “Neue Burg” (Ephesos Museum, Collection of Arms and Armour and the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments) and also the Kunsthistorisches Museum.…”
I already posted a small selection of the photos taken at the treasury here: SCA visit – Kareina – 2nd weekend – photos Saturday – “Treasury” – my complete ‘treasury’ collection at Flickr: Austria, Vienna – Treasury / Schatzkammer.
After the treasury we also visited the museums located at the “Neue Burg” – here a small selection of the photos taken at the “Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer” / “Collection of Arms and Armour” – you can find all photos taken at the “Collection of Arms and Armour” here: Austria, Vienna – KHM – Neue Burg – Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer.
Part I – armour:
11
Mai
2010
SCA visit – Kareina – 2nd weekend – photos Saturday – “Treasury”
Kareina stayed for about 10days in Vienna – unfortunately for me she is already back home in Milano again. During her second weekend here we visited the “Schatzkammer” (treasury).
I think I have taken already many photos at the “Schatzkammer” but every time I visit this or other museums again I can’t resist and have to take more photos and this weekend I really took many photos – 1966 photos! *lol*
Especially many more detail photos of the 12th to 15th century items on display. …and because some time ago a nice lady from the 12th century mailing list asked me to take more photos of the blue Alba because she would love to do some research for a new garb project, I took many detail photos of it – especially of the gores and every detail that looked very interesting. I enjoyed it very much to discuss the blue and white Alba and its “mistakes” with Kareina and we found quite a few…
…btw. you can find my complete collection of photos taken at the “Schatzkammer” in this Flickr folder: Austria, Vienna – Treasury / Schatzkammer – here just a “small” selection of my pictures:
…btw. this here are copies/reproductions from the 18th century:
…and here the beautiful original items on display:
…and some detail photos of the blue Alba – gore detail on the right side:
…and here the white Alba:
…and more detail photos of the beautiful cloak:
…and more pictures of my favourite 11th-12th century pouch:
…and many more other photos…