I love the internet!
I recently learned that Johann Siebmacher's 1597 "Neues Modelbuch" was
online here:
http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/0002/bsb00026001/images/index.html?seite=5
Much of the book is two or three-color graphs for use in embroidery (or
anything you might use a charted pattern for). But some of the patterns
are labelled for something -"Schnidtene"
http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/0002/bsb00026001/images/index.html?seite=67
and something-"Schniden" [sic]
http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/0002/bsb00026001/images/index.html?seite=79
What do you think, Arachne friends? What might these patterns from 1597
have been for? I think it is some kind of cutwork like reticella, but 16th
century English is hard enough, let alone 16th c. German.
Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/
Ravelry ID: alwen
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