Mon Jul 15, 2019 09:15 PM

Morning Modelbuch (7/16/2019)

This 17th century lace, listed as either Italian or Flemish, isn’t nearly as cool on the museum page, where it is turned so you don’t see the pictorial wonder of it. Flip the photo and you can see the mermaids, peacocks, gryphons, and eagles. It is a really fascinating example of what we usually suppose to be a needlelace pattern worked in bobbin lace. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/219774

The pattern is similar to those in Cesare Vecellio’s _Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne, libro secundo_ http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10537221d