Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:44 PM

Morning Modelbuch (7/12/2019)

Lace dated about 1600, accession numbers 95.916 and 95.917, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Needle lace is worked between bars of bobbin lace on the thicker piece. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/71269 https://collections.mfa.org/objects/71270

Acorns similar to these show up in _Nuova inventione de diverse mostre cosi di punto in aere come di retticelli_ by Giacomo Franco, dated 1596 (Lotz 131.)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1510833s/f21.item