Old Venetian Lace has always been considered one of the high points of the textile arts, what with its imaginative design, technical brilliance, and universal appeal to all lands and times.
Vinciolo\'s designs are also of interest to the graphic artist who wishes delicate yet forceful textile images..
Most of this material is nowhere else available.
These include geometric forms, exuberant treatment of classical motives, Italian and Levantine designs, and mush else that the modern worker, able to pick out a pattern, can re-create.
For the modern needleworker who wishes to recapture the charm of this antique lace, Vinciolo\'s book offers 98 plates of fine Patterns and designs in various techniques: needlepoint, darned netting, point coupé, counted thread work, and others.
It remains one of the basic books in the history of lace.
In 1587 Vinciolo published a collection of his best Patterns and designs, Les singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts , which went through more than a dozen printings in France and Italy.
A leading Venetian designer, he was summoned in France to the court of Henry II, probably by Catherine de Medici, where he had the monopoly on manufacturing Lace neck ruffs.
Federico Vinciolo is one of the masters within this art.
It was the ancestor of most of the important laces that have since been made in Europe, and surviving specimens are the treasured possessions of the great museums of the world.
Old Venetian Lace has always been considered one of the high points of the textile arts, what with its imaginative design, technical brilliance, and universal appeal to all lands and times
