Modes et dessins de broderie : Madame d'A... 2d année
This is a French fashion and embroidery pattern book, the second year of Modes et dessins de broderie published in 1818, offering women's costume plates alongside designs for needlework. The pictures pair engraved Parisian-style dress figures with line-drawn borders of leaves, scrolls, rosettes and bouquets. A designer could take from them the tidy, repeating botanical border motifs and the clean, outlined linework typical of early nineteenth-century embroidery patterns.
