Comments on: flea market find: needlepoint nude

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:08:41 +0000

What are the dimensions? I have a needlepoint nude also

By: Blythe

Blythe — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:35:57 +0000

Oh wowww it’s the Rokeby Venus in needlepoint form! That is so cool and totally postmodern…I love how the anonymous artist chose such a canonical image and applied it to one of the so-called “low” arts. What a great find, I am very jealous.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:41:48 +0000

I found a lovely b/w needlepoint picture too this month, blogged here http://www.feltbug.blogspot.com (cross stitch at the car boot – posted Feb 5th) !
I was very happy as I had just started my own cross-stitch project 2 weeks earlier !

By: Allison R.

Allison R. — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:09:19 +0000

Hi- Thanks everyone for your responses. I want to see Venus for sure. I spent a night looking for the 15th century inspiration online..Thanks Sarah for pointing out Velasquez…She really is growing on me…Owen is asleep under her now. Keeping cozy in the blizzardy weather. Peace!
Allison R

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:07:24 +0000

this looks just like Venus in the recent Peter O’Toole movie called Venus ,he is up for an academy award for best actor – what a great show and your lucky find is almost a duplicate!!!!!!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:31:09 +0000

What a lovely find! And I just realized that I’ve seen it before–in my mythology textbook. Did you know that this needlepoint is a fairly faithful reproduction of a 15th century Spanish painting of Venus? (minus Cupid and with a different mirror). Painted by Diego Velazquez. Google image search Venus + Velazquez

By: miranda

miranda — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:55 +0000

That’s so great!
I have seen nudie needlepoints before, but not so classy and retro. There’s been a movement lately in alternative craft stores to do needlepoint patterns from nude photos, but they’re usually kind of… anatomical. I don’t know. I know some ppl who love the very anatomical stuff (women’s studies majors, etc – it’s sort of a sex-positive-feminist thing), but those designs seem a little OTT to me, even as a sex-positive-feminist.

The last needlepoint that I found in a store was just a little cross-stitch of two dinosaurs, about ten years old, cheesy and cartoonish, with some phrase about friendship. It wasn’t something I’d hang on my own wall, but it was something that I thought would make a cute component for something to sell on Etsy, like a totebag or something, and I picked it up for 75 cents. Most of my past weird thrift scores have been things like vintage chess pieces, unique old box handbags, a Genie phone, a really scary old doll head.

By: Pinkmohair

Pinkmohair — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:51:44 +0000

This is a freaking SCORE. $17 is a bargain in my book. I LOVE HER, you lucky duck!

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:11:37 +0000

I think it’s worth it. That would look fab in my bathroom.

I have a soft spot for needlepoint and counted cross-stich finds at flea markets, etc because I do it myself. I found a beautiful sampler that the person put into a tea tray for two bucks at an antique store.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:32:34 +0000

oh.. my blog is artesprit.blogspot.com
oops!