Opera nova composta per Domenico da Sera detto il Franciosino : dove si insegna a tutte le nobili & leggiadre giovenette di lavorare di ogni sorte di pñti, cusire, recamare, & far tutte qlle belle opere, che si appartengono alle virtuose fanciulle, e qua si dilettano di far cō le sue mani alcuna gentilezza, & e anchora molto utile a gli tessadri, che sogliono lavorare di seta
Author Matteo Pagano Italian
Domenico da Sera French
Publisher Ferdinando Ongania
This collection of Venetian lace patterns was originally compiled in the sixteenth century. An early application of printing in Venice, its purpose was for individual use, and it has been reprinted numerous times. The nineteenth-century Venetian publisher and bookseller F. Ongania (1842-1911) printed this fourteen-volume set of plates in 1876. Moore had several books on lace history and patterns in his library. The hybrid nature of Venetian lace, combining European, Byzantine, and “Saracenic” traditions, and the intricate patterns resonate with designs created at Tiffany & Co. under Moore’s direction.
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