Tue Dec 11, 2018 09:35 PM

Morning Modelbuch (12/12/2018)

Cupid letting loose an arrow from Pagano’s 1556 _La gloria et l’honore de ponti tagliati,ponti in aere_

Interestingly enough, while the book proclaims the patterns are intended to be worked in lace, both examples I know of are done in blackwork. The one in red is a towel in the Cooper Hewitt, collected by Marian Hague. The blue is a bedcover in the Hermitage.

Bedspread in the Hermitage (#?-9611) http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/11.+textiles+tapestry/292865 Towel https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18474993/with-image-112565/ Matheo Pagano https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t9v15ng3v;view=1up;seq=23;skin=mobile