Sun Oct 21, 2018 02:12 PM

Mid-afternoon Modelbuch (10/21/2018) I’ve talked about Louisa Pesel and her book on Historical Embroidery before. Many of the patterns are charted from 17th century samplers. Her 37 page leaflet on double running stitch with some of those charts, that was later republished as part of her book, is available to download as a free PDF from Antique Pattern Library. http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/H-XX086.htm

And here’s some of the artifacts she used, samplers dated 1661 in the V and A. http://m.vam.ac.uk/item/O70240/sampler-unknown/

http://m.vam.ac.uk/item/O70153/sampler-short-elizabeth/