Elizabethan Pattern Book
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An article by Frances Morris on the 1591 London pattern book 'New and Singular Patternes & Workes of Linnen', printed by John Wolfe and Edward White for Adrian Poyntz and regarded as the first English pattern book for lace and cut-work. It reproduces the book's title page and its Epistle to the Reader, which explains how to work the designs on counted squares. The text also covers the book's discovery at a Grolier Club exhibition, the popularity of cut-work and reticello in Elizabethan England, and earlier pattern books. Illustrations include a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I and Flemish lace with the monogram of William III.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1919
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
- Archive notes
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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