Embroidery and Botany
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
An article on how embroidery design drove the creation of Le Jardin du Roy (Paris, 1608), a flower pattern book by Pierre Vallet, embroiderer to the King, in collaboration with the royal gardener Jean Robin. It traces the Robin family's botanical garden in Paris, Vallet's etched plates of native and exotic plants, and later editions of the book. It also links the work to the development of the French parterre and the origins of the Jardin des Plantes. Illustrated with the title-page, portraits of Vallet and Robin, sample plant etchings, and garden views by Perelle; a bibliography follows.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1935
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 12
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »