2-755-748 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

German Renaissance embroidery, (1898). 'Fig 1: Table-cover embroidered in cross-stitch, in the possession of Mr. Schauffele, confectioner at Schwabisch-Hall. Fig 2: Linen-embroidery from the Bavarian National-Museum at Munich. Fig 3: Embroidered border from a carpet, ibid. Fig 4: Carpet embroidered on cloth, ibid, (1560- 1590.) Fig 5: Curtain-border embroidered on velvet in appliqué-work (16cm wide) from the rich chapel in the Royal Residence at Munich. Fig 6: Border of a gold-embroidered leather-pouch in the Bavarian National-Museum at Munich. Fig 7: Pattern of a woven material in the church at Weingarten....The embroidery in Fig 5 was executed in the first years of the 17th century, at which time the silk-embroiderers of Munich were far and wide renowned'. Plate 74 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]