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Morning Modelbuch (2/24/2019) I ran into a source of patterns in use that I hadn’t considered previously. There is a…

Morning Modelbuch (2/23/2018) A friend of mine pointed out this gorgeous Bartolomeo Venuto portrait of Lodovico Martinengo at the UK’s…

Morning Modelbuch (2/21/2019) Not the fine, exacting embroidery stitches as painted by some, but the collar in Nicole dell’Abate’s “Portrait…

Morning Modelbuch (2/20/2019) I don’t spend much time going through Rosina Furst’s _Das Neue Modelbuch_ vol 1-4 1666-1689 books because…

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Morning Modelbuch (2/18/2019) Understated whiteworked partlet in a 1550 Portrait of a Lady by Bronzino in the Cleveland Museum of…

Morning Modelbuch (2/17/2019) Fleur-de-lis bobbin lace patterns is Parasole’s _Gemma Pretiosa della Virtuose Donne_ Similar to a needle lace border…

Morning Modelbuch (2/19/2019) My friend Marlene Martineau recently did an embroidered scroll inspired by a pattern in Pietro Tozzi’s 1598…