Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: Needlework, embroidery, material culture, women's work, fashion history, art history

About Me: Isabella Rosner is a current PhD student at King’s College London, where she studies Quaker women’s decorative arts before 1800, specifically 17th-century English needlework and 18th-century Philadelphia wax and shellwork. She is an expert in early modern women’s needlework and schoolgirl samplers. She also runs a podcast called “Sew What?” about historic needlework and the gals who stitched it.

Recent Publications: ‘“Black-works, white-works, colours all”: Finding Susanna Perwich in her Seventeenth-century Embroidered Cabinet’. Art Herstory. 26 May 2020. https://artherstory.net/finding-susanna-perwich-in-her-embroidered-cabinet/.

‘Glove’s Labour’s Lost: An Exploration of Seventeenth-Century Gloves’. The Costume Society. 12 April 2020. http://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/gloves-labours-lost-an-exploration-of-seventeenth-century-gloves.

‘In Glistening Glory: Queen Elizabeth I’s Dress at Hampton Court Palace’. The Costume Society. 22 March 2020. http://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/in-glistening-glory-queen-elizabeth-is-dress-at-hampton-court-palace.

‘”A Cunning Skill Did Lurk”: Susanna Perwich and the Mysteries of a Seventeenth-Century Needlework Cabinet’. Textile History. 9 December 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00404969.2018.1509436?journalCode=ytex20.

‘Stitching History: LACMA’s Guatemalan and Mexican Samplers’. LACMA. 21 August 2017. https://unframed.lacma.org/2017/08/21/stitching-history-lacma%E2%80%99s-guatemalan-and-mexican-samplers.

Expertise by Chronology: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern