Decorative Arts
Description
This file contains items relating generally to the decorative arts, including carving and the decoration of items. The file includes a photocopy of Carson I. A. Ritchie's article, 'Art of the Northern Whaler', on skrimshaw, from the 'Dalesman', volume 41, number 11 (February 1979), pp. 917-919; James Houston's article, 'Living Art of the Eskimos', extracted from an unidentified magazine publication (undated), pp. 40-44; Beryl Platts' article on embroidery, extracted from 'Country Life' (4 March 1971), pp. 484-486; Mark Girouard's article, 'Stamped, Addressed and Illustrated: Irish Decorated Envelopes of the Victorian Era', extracted from 'Country Life' (30 July 1970), pp. 290-291; Evelyn Goshawk's article, 'Royal Finery on Playing Cards', extracted from 'Country Life' (30 March 1972), pp. 803-804; and a photocopy of an ms. paper by Trevor Lloyd Weedon on the Hunterston Brooch (n.d.: ca. 1970s), a Celtic brooch inscribed with runes found at St. Ninian's Head in Shetland. File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | z9q56923 |
| IRN | 410832 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/17/2 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/z9q56923 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Q: Folk Art |
| Date | 1970-1979 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of photocopied papers and magazine extracts. |