{"id":487,"date":"2013-05-24T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/wish-you-were-here-embroidered-vintage-postcards-2\/"},"modified":"2013-05-24T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:14:00","slug":"wish-you-were-here-embroidered-vintage-postcards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/wish-you-were-here-embroidered-vintage-postcards-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Wish You Were Here – Embroidered Vintage Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWhen I travel I usually collect postcards, some of which I
\nactually send to the folks back home, but more often I tend to save these
\nsouvenirs.  The photographs and\/or
\nartwork are amazing, never is there one of long airport lines or torrential
\nrains or blizzards.  All are happy
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\nIn the last part of the 19thC postcards were standard forms
\nof communication, not necessarily from vacation venues.  The cards were inexpensive (no envelopes and
\nthe postage was less than was required for a letter).  Often they were sent as greetings for holidays or just to say
\n\u201cI\u2019m thinking about you\u201d.  These cards
\nare a great source of Victorian art and can be found at nearly every flea
\nmarket or antique shop.  I especially
\nlike the ones that have actually been sent, with postmarks and addresses and
\nshort messages.  They let me wonder
\nabout the people (both the senders and the receivers) and what they were doing
\non that Easter morning or what relation they had to each other or whether they
\nhad as great a vacation as they indicated.<\/div>\n
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\nThere is a group of vintage postal cards that are textile
\nrelated.  These are embroidered cards
\nthat were popular in the first decades of the 20thC .  One type of card featured a scene or greeting embroidered on a
\nlightweight voile fabric.  The
\nembroidery was then affixed to the postcard cardboard, usually including a thin
\npaper frame to protect the stitchery. 
\nThese cards usually commemorated a holiday such as Christmas or a
\nbirthday or anniversary and were kept as touching momentoes.<\/div>\n
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\nAnother type of embroidered work was professionally stitched
\ndirectly on the card, usually as an accent, over the artwork.  These were especially popular with
\nservicemen stationed overseas.  Later,
\ndue to demand for these souvenirs, many countries created cards as part of a
\nseries, demonstrating native crafts, costumes and scenery. What a great bookmark or small bit of art for your already overcrowded
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\n    A series of embroidered cards from Portugal showing regional dress and landmarks from various Portuguese districts<\/div>\n
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\nParer back of the card would have been affixed over the stitching<\/div>\n
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\nHopefully there will still be a demand for these
\ncontemporary, inexpensive arty cards despite email and tweets.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wish You Were Here When I travel I usually collect postcards, some of which I actually send to the folks back home, but more often I tend to save these souvenirs.  The photographs and\/or artwork are amazing, never is there one of long airport lines or torrential rains or blizzards.  All are happy reminders. In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vintage-postcards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}