Do you know the Bibliodyssey blog? It’s a blog of almost entirely 19thC or earlier images, with some information about their sources/history/artist that has been extracted from the source site.
Edit - Doh! I forgot a link! http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/
Peakay puts up all sorts of images – from plants to cephalopods (squids and octopi) to birds to fantastical art. It’s a blog you can get lost in for hours. He’s actually had a coffee table book published of some of the best images, and seems to know museum websites like no other!
Today, he is featuring Hummingbirds. They would make lovely needlepaintings, I think.
These are two of my favourites :
%5B3%5D.jpg "Le Mazeppa (cropped)")
%5B3%5D.jpg "La Caeligene (cropped)")
There are many many other images on the site that could be used as sources for embroidery – all copyright free, too.
The blog Trouvais (which features antique country French decor) has an entry today about a subject the Needleprint blog has covered in the past - the scraps of fabric Mothers would leave with their babies when leaving then at Foundling Hospital gates.
http://trouvais.com/2011/05/08/threads-of-feeling/
The entry includes some great pictures of some of the pieces, and has a link to a current exhibition of them being held at the Foundling Hospital Museum.
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