Digital source of illustration (retrieved 5 June 2016).
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Cover of 1606 edition of 'Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Pourtraicts...' by Federico de Vinciolo (1587).
Federico de Vinciolo was a pattern designer and lace maker from Venice, who lived and worked in the sixteenth century. Among other places, he worked at the court of Henry II of France (1519-1559). In 1587 he produced a needlework pattern book called (in short) Les singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts ... pour touttes sortes d'ouvrages de lingerie ....