Cristina Carr, textile conservator at the MET and a friend, sent me a note letting me know that her essay for the Twixt Art and Nature exhibit had been turned into a ‘Timeline’ feature on the MET website.  The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is something that the MET has been working on developing for awhile.  It is a series of essays which are paired with images from the collection on a subject.  Curator Melinda Watt published  ‘English Emboridery of the Late Tudor and Early Stuart Eras” in May and Cristina followed up in June with “The Materials and Techniques of the Late Tudor and Early Stuart Eras”.  They are nice reading.  One of the features was the inclusion in the object records (that are attached) of more close up photos of the objects.  Another feature is found at the bottom in the references.  Take a look on the right hand side – there are related articles that were published in the MET Journal which are normally hard to come by.  They are available in pdf form and include more gems.

So enjoy the visual material!  Also keep up that pressure to get the exhibit video as well – there is a move afoot to make it available.  And the quick sell out of the book – don’t you think Yale should put that into print again!

Tricia