Sarah Mead Leonard
Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs, Newberry Library (all views my own). PhD. Victorian Art History, #MaterialCulture, #HistoricLandscapes, those kinds of things. Also running @morris-on-screen.bsky.social
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- Are any NAVSA people interested in putting together a panel about London and/or art history for the 2026 "Traffic" theme? I have some work on livestock, bridges, and train depots and would welcome some companionship. traffic2026.ucr.edu/call-for-pap...
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- Every year, my family pulls out a mix CD burned for me by an acquaintance around 2007. We shared a love of less typical Christmas music and he had suggestions for things 20-year-old me had likely never heard. It’s still the best Christmas mix I’ve ever heard. Today, I share it with you all.
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- It's wild to me how "American" this mill looks. If you asked me to guess where it was with no context, I'd say North Carolina, not Aberdeenshire. Interesting how vernacular, working forms overlap when you're dealing with similar materials (wood! iron! field stone!) in the same period (1850s).
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- Reminder that this is tomorrow - putting together the presentation now, and excited to be talking about Morris and the Thames again!
- I'm excited to say I'm taking part in the Totally Thames Festival 2025, presenting "William Morris's Thames: Inspiration and Resource" for the William Morris Society UK. The talk will take place online on Wednesday, September 24th, 6-7pm London time. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/wil...
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- Excited that my work with @morris-on-screen.bsky.social gets a mention here!
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- A nice Wikimedia Commons find from this week - a floral diagram of a wallflower (Erysimum bicolor "Bowles' Mauve"), made from the flower itself. #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday
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- I'm excited to say I'm taking part in the Totally Thames Festival 2025, presenting "William Morris's Thames: Inspiration and Resource" for the William Morris Society UK. The talk will take place online on Wednesday, September 24th, 6-7pm London time. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/wil...
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- For #TextileTuesday, here are some objects I fell in love with while poking around on the V&A collections website last week: samples of woven fabrics designed by C.F.A. Voysey between 1895 and 1900, woven in strips to show different colorway options.
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- Something I find endlessly fascinating about American TJ Maxx is that they clearly have a deal with a UK overstock distributor, and that distributor offers generic gift shop goods but also branded products. Thus: a mug of National Trust East Midlands properties, purchased in Western North Carolina.
- For #FragmentFriday, here's a nice bit of fabric I came across this week. Furnishing fabric, printed cotton. Possibly Bannister Hall print works, c. 1870-1890. V&A CIRC.1034-1925 To give some idea of the pattern scale, this piece's width is about 34 cm, or just over 13 inches.
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- Did you know: The inventor of the Erector Set donated at least two of his champion German shepherds to the Yale Peabody Museum as specimens. collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Recor...
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- Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay! This panel, held at the V&A, is a great example of how Morris & Co. sold much of its embroidery: not as finished pieces, but as kits. The piece would be started by a Morris & Co. worker, demonstrating the recommended techniques, then sold with all necessary supplies.
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- SOMETHING WONDERFUL HAS HAPPENED. I'm researching the Blake brothers, nephews of Eli Whitney, as part of a larger contract project. I was looking at this 1877 ad for their hardware company and the thing at bottom left caught my eye.
- Here's a bit of #MosaicMonday (and also an early #TextileTuesday) - love the intersection of #MidcenturyModern and classical archaeology. Ramon Prats, "Mosaic" printed cotton, 1954. Cooper Hewitt 1994-38-3 🪡
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- In case anyone was wondering: yes this cursed hotel room ceiling wallpaper is a Morris design (Grafton, 1883).
