Les excellents eschantillons, patrons et modelles du seigneur Federic de Vinciolo venitien : pour apprendre à faire toutes sortes d'ouurages de lingerie, de poinct couppé, grands et petits passements à iour, & dentelles exquises
A pattern book of lace designs by Federico de Vinciolo, a Venetian, printed in Paris in 1623 for lacemakers and needleworkers learning to make cut-work linen, bobbin lace and openwork edgings. The pictures are engraved plates of symmetrical geometric and floral lace panels, shown as white linework on black or on a grey ground, with French captions above and plate letters below. A designer could take from them the repeating medallion, rosette and scalloped border arrangements that suit ornamental edging, stencil or pattern-repeat work.
