The Company has a quarterly newsletter, with instructional articles on embroidery styles, reports on museum visits, research articles and book reviews.
The newsletter is emailed to those members who request it, or sent by mail if required. To be added to the mailing list, contact the Chronicler.
Index of Issues
All issues contain standard items which are not included in the Index below, to avoid repetition: From the Guildmaster; From the Patron; Competition details; and Contacts. Many of the early issues were converted to HTML by Aeron Lasair. In future, we plan to have a complete set of back issues avaiable in PDF format.
#29 12th NightCoronation (.pdf 1.3mb)
#28 Midwinter Coronation (.pdf)
#27 May Crown (.pdf)
#26 12th Night Coronation (.pdf )
#25 November Crown Tourney (.pdf 1.1mb)
#24 July Midwinter Coronation (.pdf 1.3mb)
#23 12th Night January Coronation (.pdf 1.3mb)
#22 November Crown Tourney (.pdf 1.3mb)
#21 July Midwinter Coronation (.pdf - 1.2 mb)
#20 May Crown (.pdf - 606 kb)
#19 Midwinter Coronation (July) (.pdf - 397 kb)
#18 May Crown (.pdf - 337 kb)
#17 12th Night Coronation (Jan) (.pdf - 89 kb)
#16 Crown (Nov) (.pdf - 976 kb)
#16 Midwinter (Oct) (.pdf - 293 kb)
#18 Spring Coronet
Occupational Names for Medieval Embroiderers (Bess la Seour);Opus Teutonicum
- Twelfth Night Competition (Bess Haddon)
#17 Midwinter
What I did on my Holidays (Keridwen visits London again - Globe Theatre, Hatfield
House, the V&A); A Brief History of the Human Figure in Embroidery (Acacia)
#16 May Coronet
Islamic/Middle Eastern Embroidery (Leonie)
#15 12th
Night
Silk from an Unusal Source (Bess); Items from CIETA newsletter (Picture story
of Gawan, English medieval cope); Book Review;German 14th - 15th Century Embroidery
2001
#14
Spring Coronet
Accession Day Guild Event (Bess); Lochac Ceremonial Cloaks (Bartolemao); Gold
and Metal Thread Embroidery (Bess); Proposal to Lochac Kingdom Regalia Committee
for a Royal Carpet (Rowan)
#13 Midwinter
What I did on my Holidays again (Bess visits museums in Chicago, Toronto and
Boston); Embroidered Headwear: A Brief and Inexact Summary (Bartolemeo); Kingdom
Ceremonial Cloaks (Bess)
#12 May Coronet
Elizabethan Embroidered Underwear (Keridwen); Shop reviews
#9 12th Night
Documentation and Presentation fro Company Competitions and Ranking (Bess)
2000
#8 Spring
Coronet
What I did on my Holidays part 2 (Keridwen visits Hardwick Hall, Bath and
the Globe); Pre 100 AD Embroidery (Keridwen)
#7 Midwinter
What I did on my Holidays (Keridwen visits the V&A in London); Linn Skinner's
Goldwork Class (Iseala - West Patron); Embroidery for Bed, Bath and Table
(Bess); Opus Anglicanum (Iseala)
1999
#6 Spring
Coronet
What I did on my Holidays part 4 (Bess visits museums in Brauschweig); Book
review: German Renaissance Patterns for Embroidery; Needlemade Lace before
1600 (Keredwin)
#5 Midwinter
Renaissance Pattern Books (Bess)
#4 May Coronet
What I did on my Holidays part 3 (Bess visits Nuremberg, Regensburg); Report
on Metal Thread class (Madilyn); "New Judging Forms for Competitions", "The
Technique of Couching" (Bess)
#3 12th
Night
What I did on my Holidays part 2 (Bess visits Florence, Bargello Tristan Quilt);
Embroidered pouches (Bess)
1998
#2 Spring
Coronet
What I did on my Holidays (Bess visits Vienna)
#1 Midwinter
Lochac Needleworkers Guild becomes the Worshipful Company of Broiderers of
Lochac (Keridwen)
Index of Articles
Some of the articles have been converted from the original Newsletter formats to HTML by Aeron Lasair.