Renaissance Pattern Books

Still no updates on my pouches. Yesterday was another rapier practice. Ish brought along his metal rapier, much nicer than fibreglass!! Or as Rurik says, "Sexxyyy".

So here are some links to Renaissance period pattern books:

• The Needle's Excellency - 1611 - A famous poem and a diverse mixture of counted work patterns, needlelace and other patterns.
• Singvliers Et Novveaux Povrtraicts - 1606 - by Federic de Vinciolo
• The English Emblem Book Project - emblem books were often used as embroidery and other decorative art patterns.
• The Miscellany of Thomas Trevelyon - 1608 - was a cornacopia of just about everything, but the book is famous for over 100 pages of embroidery patterns. Here is one page. For the biblophile, the Folger is producing a reproduction of the work in 2007.
  

There are also many available in hardcopy:

• Bassée, Nicolas. "German Renaissance Patterns for Embroidery: A Facsimile Copy of Nicolas Bassée's New Modelbuch of 1568, with an introduction by Kathleen Epstein". Austin: Curious Works Press. ISBN 0-9633331-4-3.

• Gesner, Konrad. "Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts: A selection of 190 sixteenth-century woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's natural histories". New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN: 0-486-22701-4

• Hofer, Hans. "Ain new Formbuech'len der weyssen Arbeyt". Nieuwkoop, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1968. (Facsimile of the 1545 edition published in Augsburg)

• Nourry, Claude and Saincte Louie[sic], Pierre de. "Patterns: Embroidery - Early 16th Century". Berkeley, CA: Lacis, 1999. ISBN 1-891656-16-3.

• Shorleyker, Richard. "A Schole-House for the Needle: Produced from the original book printed in 1632 and now in the private collection of John and Elizabeth Mason". Much Wenlock, Shropshire: RJL Smith & Associates, 1998.ISBN 1-872665-72-1.

• Sibmacher, Johan. "Baroque Charted Designs for Needlework". New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1975. "This Dover edition, first published in 1975, is an unabridged republication of the 1880 edition of Newes Modelbuch . . . . Inn Druck verfertigt, a work originally published in Nuremberg in 1604. . ." ISBN 0-486-23186-0.

• Vinciolo, Federico. "Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery and Needlepoint (An unabridged facsimile of the "Singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts" of 1587)". New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. ISBN 0-486-22438-4

• Newell, Kathryn. "Needlework Patterns from Renaissance Germany: Designs recharted by Kathryn Newell from Johan Sibmacher's Schön Neues Modelbuch, 1597". Boulder, CO: Costume & Dressmaker Press, 1999.