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	<title>The Embroiderer's Story</title>
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		<title>The New MFA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Becky yesterday asked about the dates of the new gallery opening &#8211; here is what I know:
The new American Wing of the MFA will open in November 2010 &#8211; installation is underway and can be seen on their webpage.  There will be period rooms as well and textiles distributed in the wing as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distributed Sampler Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was at the MFA helping with some stitch identification and looking at a few pieces.  I was treated as part of it to several samplers from private collection that will be part of the upcoming year of &#8216;Boston Embroideries&#8217; that will be on view in the new American Galleries that will be opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MET post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems I may have misunderstood Cristina.  She said she isn&#8217;t done with the Timeline essay &#8211; she hasn&#8217;t added the PICTURES  yet to it!  That is like music to our ears.  Cristina specializes in close up details.  So we may have some more eye candy to look at soon on that site.  Keep watching.
Tricia
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		<title>Summer Reading from the MET</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;Timeline&#8217; feature on the MET website.  The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is something that the MET has been working on developing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecture at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House &#8211; Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you live in the Michigan/Ohio/Ontario area, I will be visiting the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House on Grosse Point Shores, Michigan to give a lecture on the Plimoth Jacket.  The Edsel Eleanor Ford House was the primary estate of the son of Henry Ford, built in the Cotswolds style.  Set on impressive grounds on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Samplers on View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to be in the Netherlands this summer/fall and are driving about the country, don&#8217;t miss the small exhibition of Dutch Samplers at the Van Gijn House in Dordrecht.   The museum will be showing a combination of samplers and darning works as well.  The museum is at Nieuwe Haven 29/30, in Dordrecht, Netherlands. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marie Antoinette&#8217;s Dress &#8211; Royal Ontario Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the tradition of &#8216;behind the scenes&#8217; info, I stumbled upon this video cast of the Royal Ontario Museum preparing to exhibit their famous dress worn by Marie Antoinette.  The dress is the most complete of those attributed to her ownership.  It is a nice bit of video, showing how the curators and conservators as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colonial Williamsburg &#8211; Gift Opportunities Relating to Costume/Textiles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like it when institutions identify specific needs and quantify them, it makes giving to the museum tangible and you can support things that matter to you, possibly even visit later to see the object/effort done.  There are a few drives at Williamsburg right now that I wanted to point out.  They are opportunities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thistle-threads.com.mytempweb.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/colonial-williamsburg-gift-opportunities-relating-to-costumetextiles/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Why Do We Cast Cannons, Make Wooden Wheels, and Build Coffeehouses?&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the gulf in blogs.  I am recovering from jet lag that has hit me like a ton of bricks.  My husband is into adventure travel and we are recovering from his latest adventure.  When someone at his work heard about us taking our 5-year old hiking down into an active volcano at 10,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thistle-threads.com.mytempweb.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/why-do-we-cast-cannons-make-wooden-wheels-and-build-coffeehouses/</link>
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		<title>The Corbet Bed Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been saving this post for a bit &#8211; until I had a chance to blog about Sulgrave and their magnificent project.  There are other projects out there which have worked to outfit historic pieces with appropriate textiles.  One of which is the Corbet Bed Project.
The bed is installed at the Rowley&#8217;s House and [...]]]></description>
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