Tue Nov 19, 2019 06:50 PM

Morning Modelbuch (11/20/2019) The Musea Brugge has a Flickr album of its 2017 exhibition “Pieter Pourbus and the Forgotten Masters” that has a beautiful view of the Portrait of Jacquemyne Buuck by Pieter Pourbus dated 1551. There are fantastic patterns used on her gollar, her shirt, and her headdress. https://www.flickr.com/photos/museabrugge/albums/72157670777861835

Look at the hearts on the shirt which match up beautifully with those in the 1544 version of Peter Quentel’s _Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch_. The book also has some of the early patterns that match up with the style in her headdress. It is exciting to see the wide mix of styles in both the book and the outfit. I think that is one of the things that looking at the patterns and how they are used had really taught me, just how much the actual items worn and used by people historically mix a wide selection of inspiration and wear as many patterns of embroidery and types of lace as they can. The modern sensibility is much more wanting to match and unify. The 16th century had table linens with 3 types of needlelace and two patterns of bobbin lace mixed into a relatively small space and could have shirts with a pattern on the collar, one on the cuffs, another on the shoulders, and one more down the side seams. It is fun to see all the mixing and matching. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/354658