The Glasgow Style Embroidery and Textiles
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 150 items of embroidery and textiles made or designed by artist craftspeople and designers associated with the Glasgow Style. The objects date from 1899 to 1970. This collection reflects the work and influential legacy of both the students and the teachers of the Glasgow School of Art. Of the 150 pieces, over 45 were designed or produced between 1899 and 1920, and a further 90 were made between 1920 and 1970. Needlework items include hangings and panels, costume, an altar frontal and a draught screen, and domestic linen such as tablecloths, tea cosies, cushion covers, bedcovers and bags. Needleworkers represented include Ellison Young, Jane Younger, Eliza Kerr, Muriel Boyd, Christine McLaren, Mary Newbery Sturrock, and the sisters Annie, Grace, Jane and Mary Begg. The collection also has examples of batik work by Jessie Marion King and stencilled hangings, furnishings and rugs designed or produced by Talwin Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, George Walton & Co. and EA Taylor for Wylie and Lochhead. The Glasgow School of Art’s needlework and embroidery department was established in 1894. When Jessie Newbery and Ann Macbeth were teaching there the department was internationally recognized for excellence.
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