Suzanne Karr Schmidt

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI Mostly Chicago. She/her

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

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ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

And once more for the morning! Still excited about this, obviously! Stay tuned: Nov 10: Print book published and Grolier Club lecture (hybrid) Nov 20: Virtual Book launch! Dec. 10: Exhibition opens!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Happy Impressive Open Access Day! asu.pressbooks.pub/impressive-t... Textiles! Prints! 30 authors! Nearly 350 pages! A ridiculous number of pictures! *9,000 words of alt text!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Once again for the afternoon crowd! We made a(n online) book! Print edition now expected Nov 10!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Happy Impressive Open Access Day! asu.pressbooks.pub/impressive-t... Textiles! Prints! 30 authors! Nearly 350 pages! A ridiculous number of pictures! *9,000 words of alt text!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Next Week! Warning: I may be bringing art historically accurate* props! *mostly...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Chicago! Join me and @lecturesontap.bsky.social for a fun evening on Nov 3 if you like drinking in groundbreaking art and textile history! Tickets available now👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Happy Impressive Open Access Day! asu.pressbooks.pub/impressive-t... Textiles! Prints! 30 authors! Nearly 350 pages! A ridiculous number of pictures! *9,000 words of alt text!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books...

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

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Soutache! Chicago pirate robe friends, did you know about this absolutely beautiful trimmings store?! #OFMD www.soutacheribbons.com

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Voted Early! No Line!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Still enjoying this fabric-paper juxtaposition (and beads) in our current Hanson gallery exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! www.newberry.org/calendar/col...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Who wore it better? Nope not a map, but still, part of the Ortelius checklist fun @newberrylibrary.bsky.social

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Chicago! Join me and @lecturesontap.bsky.social for a fun evening on Nov 3 if you like drinking in groundbreaking art and textile history! Tickets available now👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

#ThingsInBooks

Adam Smyth@adamwithbooks.bsky.social

Fun thing! I'm looking at a copy of a book of summaries of Aristotle’s natural philosophy (Naturalis totius philosophiae paraphrases (1538)), and the book has a semi-circle mirror set into the backboard. Has any one seen this elsewhere? What's going on? A device to connect up with the Aristotle?

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Now taking notes on water fixtures from... Emperor Nero, are we?

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Pretty spine though

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

It's my birthday and all I got was 5,000 secret printed fabric exhibition takeaways to hand dye and cut out before December 10...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Cats AND Dogs? Had the opportunity Friday to peruse a 1920s Dean's Rag Book catalogue from the Hanna Gray Special Collections at the University of Chicago. While the logo shows dogs unable to tear their indestructible books (printed on fabric), there are feline designs too! #Caturday #Fluffikits

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Gave an accidentally alfresco printed fabric book talk down in Hyde Park yesterday! Excellent start to the Impressive Textiles book tour! @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Not sure if I wore enough printed fabric patterns?

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Not me writing another 9,000 words, this time, alt text, for the upcoming Open Access version of Impressive Textiles... (Was nearly 350 pages not enough?) 😂📚🧶 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

press.uchicago.eduImpressive TextilesFrom reproductions of Dürer copperplates to twenty-first-century apparel, this exhibition explores the history of images printed on fabric. Printing images and texts on luxurious fabrics instead of pa...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

NB, I was one of 30 amazing textile and print expert authors, though as the editor, I am surprised I wasn't dreaming in printed linens and silks!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Things... On Maps? The Ortelius exhibition @newberrylibrary will include this de Wit (Novacco 4F 36 (PrCt)). We'll probably not be able to show what's on the back, though... maybe on the label? 🤔🌹 Zoom in here! collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Hear Eleanor Janega Today! 4 PM Free at the Newberry! www.newberry.org/calendar/col... @goingmedieval.bsky.social

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

It was (predictably) fabulous!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Textile Tuesday? Might have to get back into this habit as we close in on the Impressive Textiles book (Oct 27!) and exhibition (Dec 10)!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Inside!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Eleanor Janega! Medieval Women! Wednesday, 4 pm! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! www.newberry.org/calendar/col...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

How your email finds me today

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Disaster Training! Had the *planned* opportunity to see how well staff from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social would respond to an emergency this week! Happy to say we rescued most of the books, photos, and ephemera even if some of the damp VHS tape topics gave us pause!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

*NO COLLECTION ITEMS* were involved!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Wood Pulp Paper (hold the pulp!)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

These gorgeous veneers aren't exactly a replacement for standard paper, but they are beautiful!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

A sample book from from the enterprising M. Picot c. 1834. @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case Wing Z 30548 .871)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

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🧦🪙 Sock It To Me 🪙🧦 Ever heard of a Sock Social? C. 1907, you were supposed to fill your sockvitation with pennies for a good cause! The Ladies' Aid Society of Bridgeport Illinois even printed an explanatory verse on the verso! 👇

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Sock it Away! 🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙 #NewAcq @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case HV541 .L33 1907)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Seeing Double? Just met Kelly outside the Newberry, who is painting the Newberry!! Check out her other work on kellydawsonfineart.com. And remember, we have a select few artist short term fellowships for next year. Apply by December 4! www.newberry.org/research/fel...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

What's On YOUR Garter? With only 62 characters, spaces included, the very direct letterpress messaging on this silk scrap raises SO many questions! Did the wearer's lover give it to her? And HOW many did they have printed? 🤔 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case oversize GT2128 .G37 1750) #NewAcq 1/2

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

"By a kiss, timid innocence fans the flames of the heart"... Intimate, especially if read while being worn, this text could be cheekier if its existence in multiple meant an entire household of courtesans donned them at once! Did they choose their own messages? Or did their madam do the honors? 2/2

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

I didn't bring it out for Forbidden Newberry with the garter, but I did also buy this book of (mostly) Dutch courtesans from the previous century! bsky.app/profile/drka...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

And the title page of the courtesans; looks like Margery didn't make the wall of fame, even if she later found anonymous popularity in England!: 3/3

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Oh My Gourd

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

More Gourd Season From Scheuchzer's 1732 Kupfer-Bibel! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

In the PINK

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Les Loisirs des Bords Du Loing, 1784, nearly the entire book is printed on rose colored paper! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case Wing Z 30548 .671)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

AND there's a supplement page on silk paper (but not on silk!)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Care for some Kubašta? The Day of the Bison Hunt, 1962 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social #PopUptober

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

I for one am ready to join the Papal brigades in the fight against the machines. Are these the machines?

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social

I for one am ready to join the Papal brigades in the fight against the machines.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

I'm the Pope, I might not know much about art, but I know what I like?

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Forbidden Newberry Tonight! AND in @chicagotribune.com!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

The Pop-Up Newberry on September 30 and October 1

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Seriously, was that ghost there all the time?!!