Museum article on an early 18th-century ink-on-parchment pattern for lace or embroidery, given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The pattern was drawn before 1720 and probably in New England. It was later partly erased and reused for the reverse-side deed of sale to John Procter, a Boston scrivener and schoolmaster. The author considers whether the pattern was meant for lace or embroidery, and discusses scriveners and writing masters who taught needlework, comparable Italian lace patterns and laces, and early New England crewelwork. Plates show the pattern, the deed acknowledgment, Venetian and Milanese laces, a partly worked lace pattern, and a quilted crewel bed cover from Boston, about 1714.