Dessins pour broderie napolitaine
Dessins pour broderie napolitaine is a Paris pattern book of counted-thread embroidery charts, issued by the firm of A. Rouyer for needleworkers to copy stitch by stitch. The pages are gridded graph paper with each square coloured in red, yellow, blue and black, and the designs are repeating borders, geometric diamonds, key fret bands and stylised floral sprigs. A designer could take the grid-based colour repeats, zigzag bands and frets as ready-made motifs for pattern tiles, textiles or folk-style borders.
