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Morning Modelbuch (11/12/2018) Another of Marian Hague’s gorgeous mounted pages from the Met. There are two numbers because there are…

Morning Modelbuch (11/11/2018) This unfinished needle lace figure is part of what Marian Hague donated to the Cooper Hewitt. I…

Morning Modelbuch (11/10/2018) Frances Morris, Gertrude Whiting, and the collaboration between the Met and the Needle and Bobbin Club in…

Morning Modelbuch (7/27/2018) A mermaid and a triton from Jobin’s 1586 _New Kunstlich Modelbuch_ The plates are similar to others,…

Morning Modelbuch Tozzi’s lace borders used as frames for calligraphy examples again, just because I’ve got scroll blanks on the…

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Morning Modelbuch (7/28/2018) Feeling strangely Byzantine with these roundels and double headed eagles from Iseppo Foresto’s 1557 _Splendore delle vertuose…

Fri Nov 9, 2018 05:07 PM

Morning Modelbuch (8/2/2018) An interesting window on market forces and how they influence what gets created. Giovanni Vavassore’s first modelbuch…