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It is from a pattern book for embroidery (about 1742) by Margaretha Helm (neé Mainberger) (born in 1659 in Deiningen, died in 1742 in Nuremberg, Germany). \r\n\r\nHelm worked in Nuremberg as an embroiderer, a teacher of embroidery, and a copperplate engraver who had her designs re-published by Christoph Weigel the Younger (1702-1777).  The V&A has a series of pattern books for embroidery in three parts by Margaretha Helm of which this volume is Part II.  It is entitled <i> Fortgesetzter Kunst- und Fleiss-übender Nadel- auch Laden-Gewirck-Ergötzungen oder des neu-erfundenen Neh und Stick Buchs Anderer Theil</i> or <i>Further Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle and Loom; or the newly invented Sewing and Embroidery Book Another part</i>.","physicalDescription":"Design on two sheets showing a wreath enclosing the Virgin Mary. The design features a large acanthus leaf and floral motif. 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Jahrhundert. </u> Mahrburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 1998. pp.255 and 333."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u> Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. </u> München: Manfred H. 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But for critical reasons one has not joined these together because they can be better used in this way and could otherwise be torn apart [not sure about the transcript] by putting them together. For the rest, they fit quite accurately on each other, although the sheets do not always hit each other precisely, as the paper is sometimes to blame for it and one sheet is not like the other; but by recounting/tallying as many small holes will result on one page as on the other.\r\n\r\nThe other sheet is E.1155-1933","productionType":{"text":"Design","id":"THES48872"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"virgin mary","id":"N480"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"weavers","id":"AAT25367"},{"text":"stitching","id":"AAT53660"},{"text":"embroidering","id":"AAT53653"},{"text":"wreath","id":"x43129"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"acanthus","id":"AAT164902"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.1156-1933"],"accessionNumberNum":"1156","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1933,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-21","recordCreationDate":"2009-04-17","availableToBook":false}}