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The
Textile Conservation Group invites you to tour the workroom and visit
with the staff of Penn & Fletcher, Inc. on Thursday, March 18 at 4:00 p.m.
Penn & Fletcher is a high end, custom embroidery
company. It works with interior designers and with costume
designers for stage and screen. Penn & Fletcher artisans use many different
techniques. They do hand
embroidery, tambour work and beading.
Its hand guided machines date back to the end of the 19th
century. It has developed ways of using multi-head computer guided machines that
are unlike those of any other company in the world. The staff works with designers, often
drawing inspiration from historic designs in books or pieces in our collection,
to create one of a kind works of art.
Penn & Fletcher also works with historic house museums.
One special project Penn &
Fletcher is presently working on involves the reproduction of hand
embroidered velvet upholstery for a sofa and side chairs for an historic house
museum in Newport,
R.I.
There is
no charge for the tour and refreshments will be provided.
Penn & Fletcher is located at 21-07
41st Avenue 5th Floor,
Long Island
City, three doors from
21st
Street/Queensbridge on the F train and short walk
from Queens
Plaza on the E, N, R, and 7
trains. For driving instructions
please contact Kim Kotary at kkotary@xxxxxxxxxxx or call 718-366-0103.
For more information please check out the website at www.pennandfletcher.com.
If you will be joining us, please inform
Rebecca Rushfield (wittert@xxxxxxxx).
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