L'art dans les travaux à l'aiguille
A late nineteenth-century French pattern book on decorative needlework, written by Gustave Fraipont and published in Paris in 1897 by Renouard and H. Laurens for embroiderers and designers. Its plates show colour-printed panels of floral bands, stylised foliage borders, and damask-like woven patterns in gold, red, and green, with some line-drawn vine borders. A designer could draw on these for period-style textile motifs, border strips, and repeat layouts.
