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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 6h

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

Left border of printed book of hours with a woman looking skeptically at Death below.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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!

Plastic kiddie pool filled with damp ephemera from a Newberry training exercise..

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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

Title page in French touting new invention.

Certificate from Monsieur Pivot in 1834 explaining the invention.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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

Upside down sock and extensive poem about contributing a sock full of pennies.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧦🪙 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! 👇

Tiny fabric attached to an invitation to a party.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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...

Artist with long hair and a baseball cap painting the Newberry façade. What inspiration awaits when she goes inside!

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"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

Full garter, steel reinforced band more obvious, also embroidery.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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

Detail of 62 characters of letterpress printing (including spaces) on a French 18th c. garter.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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

Full page of gourds around frame on biblical scene.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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)

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

Pope Leo XIV arguing for more human art, please.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

Tiny white friendly ghost figure in the park.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Pop-Up Newberry on September 30 and October 1

Mini Newberry in the dark with bonus ghosts and eyeballs!

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And we can't wait to introduce you to the star of the show, and subject of TWO book chapters, Manuela Cerezo, of Puebla, Mexico and her 1746 satin thesis broadside! www.newberry.org/calendar/pri... 4/5

Large shiny satin sheet with text and faux woodcut border.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another 40 "catalogue" entries by an international writing crew tell the story of narrative printing on fabric from c. 1350 to today, from Europe throughout the Americas! Not everything will be on view in Chicago, but if you come see the show in person, you can take home a print made in 2025! 3/5

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's nearly 350 pages of rarely seen engravings, woodcuts, and letterpress on silk, cotton, and linen! Our collaborative essays are by Courtney Wilder, Edward Wouk, Philip A. Sykas, Theresa Kutasz Christensen, Catharine Dann Roeber, Marina Garone Gravier, Megan Creamer and Kimberly Nichols! 2/5

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Might have an impressive announcement to make tomorrow morning...

Satin print with lace and grasshoppers, and gold edging. Text above says Edited By Suzanne Karr Schmidt.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Emergency Endpapers! Autumnal edition, from Probabsco Collection (Case C 86 .73) @newberrylibrary.bsky.social i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Right side of shiny floral brocade paper in back.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At undisclosed location for music and apparently foam dice shots

Bar shelf with brown wrapped bottles marked 1-4, 6.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even the title is surrounded in printed fabric. Published in 1641, there is nothing else like it!

Half title with calligraphic words Peristromata Turcica in black inside the red orange rug border.

Red and black printed main title page with slightly disguised date (1641).

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's another page, full of warnings against hubris despite the experimental nature of its printing! We are so lucky to be able to have this emblem book @newberrylibrary.bsky.social!

Black and white tower of Babel I side the reddish orange rug border.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What's Looming? This spectacular color printed #NewAcq from my 17th c. German buddy Georg Philipp Harsdörffer! The gorgeous rug border, which alternates colors in different printings, alludes to his proposed campaign against the Turks. And FYI, Impressive Textiles is just around the corner!

Orange red border in the shape of a striped Turkish rug with a black inset plate showing a loom.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rare Duck!? Love this printed fabric cover for a 1960s reproduction series of Hiroshige landscapes in miniature, but something looks oddly familiar! 🔪🐥?

Shiny fabric with Japanese characters (both text and mrn in kimonos) as well as a man with a sword and a lowered hat that makes it look a little like the knife duck.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

17th c. Man about town by a fire smoking and choosing between portraits of women.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lovely Ladies... Dutch engraver Crispijn de Passe (as well as his sons and quite possibly his daughter Magdalena) engraved a series of the "most beautiful courtesans" around 1630. This one, "Mrs. Margery of Richmond," reappeared c. 1650 (in reverse woodcut) in a joke book published in Britain! 1/?

Engraving of a woman with extreme decollétage coming her hair while looking in a mirror. She wears a necklace and bracelets and her dress has expensive lace points.

Anonymous woodcut, in reverse, of engraving, with less fancy necklace.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These ferocious framed beasts are from Scheuchzer's mindboggling Kupfer Bibel! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case oversize BS660 .S3414 1732) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My phone is apparently ready for spooky season* *Forbidden Newberry is almost upon us! Oct 2! www.newberry.org/calendar/for...

Woodcut of a pair of will they or won't they skeletons and vein persons, nearly holding hands.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ANOTHER Shrubbery! (15th c. modular woodblocks coming in handy, Inc. folio 485 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social)

Modular woodblock trees to right of scene.

Modular woodblock trees on outside of scene.

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