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HISTORY OF LACE.

1507.Nurem-berg.Ji. Lai-moxen.

1598.Mont -b^liard.J. Foillet.

1598.Mont-beliard.J . Foillet.

85.

Schdn ncucs Modelbuoh yon allerly liistigen Modeln naczunehen zuwiirkcn un zu sticke; gemacht im Jar Ch. 1597, zu Niirmberg, beyBalthaser Laimoxon zu erfragen. 83

Translation.

Fine new Pattern book of all sorts of pleasant patterns for sewing, working,anrl embroidering ; made in the year of Xt. 1597, at Nuremberg: to be had ofBalthasar Laimoxen.

Obi. fol. 27 ff.

5 sheets, title-page, and poem, signed J. S. (Johann Sibmacher).

Mr. Gruner has communicated to us a work with the same title, dated1591. 91

86 .

Nouveaux pourctraicts de point coupd et dantelles en petite moyenneet grande forme nouvellement inventez & mis en lumiere. Iinprime aMontbeliard par Jacques Foillet cloloxeiix (1598). 80

Small 4to. 82 ff. 78 plates.

Frontispiece with borders composed of squares of point coupe.

“ Averlissement aux dames,” of three pages, stating these works are allcomposed of “ point devant l’esguille, de point en toille, en bouclages & decordonnages.” The writer gives patterns of roses of all sizes, “ very little,middling, largo, and very large,” with from one to nine “pertuis,” or openings,holes. Also Carreaux in different forms, and lastly “ dantelles.” “Je 11 'ayvoulu omettre de vous dire que pour faire des dantelles, il vous fault jetter unfil de la grandeur que desire faire vos dantelles, & les cordonner, puis jetter lesfils au dedans, qui fera tendre le cordon & lui donnera la forme carre'e, ronde,ou telle forme que desires, ce qu’estant faict vous paraeheveres facilement.Enoultre vous verrez qu’estant bien petites deviennent pen a peu bien grandesjusques a lo fin. Elies vous enricheront & embelliront vos ouvrages en lesapplicant aux bords d’ iceux.” Directions, we coufess, perfectly enigmatical tous. The author finishes by exhorting the ladies to imitate Minerva andArachne, “ qui ont acquis un grand renom, pour avoir (come a l'envie 1’une del’uutre) travailld de l’esguille.”

The avertissement is followed by an “ Exhortation aux jeunes lilies ” inverse, beginning—

“ Si nuisiblo est aux humains la paresse,’’ &c.

40 patterns of “ roses ” of point coup6, and 18 of “ carreaux,” variouslydisposed. Then follow 20 patterns of lace “ bien petites, petites, moyennes &grosses,” all “ a point devant l’esguille” (see Figs. 7 to 11, pp. 22-24).

At the end : “ La fin courone l’oeuvre.” (This is the earliest pattern bookin which the word “ dantelle ” occurs.)

87.

New Modelbuch darinnen allerley auszgeschnittene Arbeit, in kleiner,mittelmassiger und grosser form, erst newlich erfunden. Allen tugendenFrawen vnnd Jungfrawen sehr nutzlich. Gedruckt zu Mumpelgartendurch Jacob Foillet, 1598. 86

4to. (Edition in German of the preceding.)

83 Berlin, Royal Library. L. h. 3.*—Bib. de 1’Arsenal. 11,956.*

84 Dresden, New Musoum of Arts —Bib. Ste.-Genevieve.*

and Industry. 88 S. K. M.

85 Bib. Nat. V. 1902,* and Grav.