Natura Exenterata: or Nature Unbowelled
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Excerpt of the appendices from the 1655 London compilation of medical receipts, Natura Exenterata, covering handicraft instructions. It includes recipes for dyeing yarn (yellow, red, carnation, greens, purple, russet, tawny) and staining waters, directions for knitting network and knotwork patterns (broad arrow, diamond, scallop-shell, loosings, glass-windows) and for knitting a hose, and a long series of instructions for making laces with bows (bobbins) worked by two people, using finger letters A to D. It ends with a short item on breeding horses. Includes the title page and an engraved portrait of the Countess of Arundel.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1655
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 20
- Archive notes
- Relevant appendices only
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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