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Morning Modelbuch (11/1/2018) Like a lot of people interested in historical embroidery, my first book on blackwork embroidery was Mary…

Morning Modelbuch (10/31/2018) Searching for model books turns up interesting stuff. Handwriting books turn up pretty frequently. I’ve pointed out…

Morning Modelbuch (10/30/2018) “It’s a sloth, Mom!” My son saw one of the patterns I was cropping yesterday and insisted…

Morning Modelbuch (7/8/2018) Morning Modelbuch I’ve posted these shaped patterns of Venus and a mermaid before from a different book,…

Morning Modelbuch (10/29/2018) I though this was a nice combo of painting and similar pattern. The embroidery is in bands…

Morning Modelbuch (10/28/2018) I think the thing I like most about this sampler is that someone made it into a…

Morning Modelbuch (7/7/2018) I’ve been playing around with using the modelbuch lace layouts for bavari/partlets rather than the squarish ones…

Morning Modelbuch (7/6/2018) This pattern reminds me of some of the 16th century embroidered bookbindings I’ve seen. It’s from Matheo…

Morning Modelbuch (7/5/2018) In addition to the lace books, two other types of books were often used as patterns for…

Morning Modelbuch (7/4/2018) More moresques. These aren’t labeled as being from a modelbuch, but I find them intriguing because they…