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Pattern books

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bound collection of Regency ms designs of borders friezes and dresses - the pattern book of Charlotte Elizabeth Inglis

 Fonds — Box CLX-D-33, Volume: Coll-1787 / SC-Acc-2016-0167
Identifier: Coll-1787
Content Description This is a volume labelled "Patern Book". Charlotte Elizabeth's designs occupy the full folio page and are drawn in ink. She got her collection from a number of aristocratic ladies, and she has noted some of their names, occasionally identifying and dating the design. Among the ladies noted are: Lady Montague, Lady Haddington, Lady Hope, Lady Queensberry, Miss Graham, Elizabeth Moore of Shenstone House, and Liss Lee of Spott House, East Lothian.Leading the collection in number of...
Dates: 1806-1817

Manuscript embroidery or needle-work pattern book, presented to Leonora Vigoleno

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1431
Scope and Contents The volume is hand-coloured. The drawings are sketched in ink outline with colour wash. The designs show borders, mostly floral but also including abstract and classical repeat patterns, together with some corner patterns and individual motifs. Quarto. Title page within floral border and with finely drawn crane motif, stitched into 18th century past-paper boards. Vaghi lavori delle donne presenta/ti alla virtuosa e nobile / Leonora Vigoleno / la qual opera dissegnata...
Dates: 1790-1800