Thu Aug 1, 2024 05:34 AM

Cutwork linen apron at the V&A. Accession number T.87-1917. Dated between 1580 and 1600. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O113936/apron-unknown/ Pagano’s _Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio et ornamento delle donne_ is my usual go to for cutwork. The apron isn’t nearly a detailed as most of the patterns. Granted, the museum does state that the apron isn’t finished, but it probably wouldn’t have become an ornamented as the patterns. But it does make me wonder how pretty an apron using the Pagano patterns would be. https://archive.org/details/pagano1550giardinetobnfbpt6k132447q