Wed Aug 4, 2021 12:37 AM

August 4, 2021

It is Modelbook Muse’s 3rd Anniversary!

I got my first one of the pattern books back around 1990 when I bought a copy of Dover’s “Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery and Needlepoint” and learned about Federico Vinciolo. I’ve been fascinated ever since.

I still haven’t gotten my website organized, or edited the list of links to the books from Lotz I originally posted in 2014 on my much outdated blog. I haven’t met any of my major goals really, but the page is still here and I’m back to updating. So I guess there is always hope I’ll meet those goals eventually.

I’m sharing the Clark Library’s copy of Siebmacher. The patterns I’m showing are from the end where graph paper was added and doodles and designs were hand drawn by the owner of the book. I think that is the best part of these patterns. They become personal. They keep being used. Revived, reprinted, and revised, they have lasted the test of time. https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000791792Images/MAB.31962000791792_Images