Neües Danβerlein Büechel: Winter Und Sommer Gaertlein, Plate 33

33rd plate of pocket-sized Textile Pattern Book with title page 13 pages of letterpressed text, printed on recto and verso, and 33 plates with small textile patterns. This type of pattern book, dated 1691, is of an unusually small format, featuring intricately decorated titles and text, rarely present in German pattern books for women of the 17th century. The plate consists of an illustration of four women engaged in different types of needlework, sitting around a table, and a man who is sitting with them. All are dressed in fashionable style of the late 17th century, in front of a window that opens to reveal some trees far behind. Two of the women are embroidering, and the third one is weaving. This plate is particularly illustrative of the context in which this kind of textile pattern book would have been used, mostly by women as a guide for their needle works, often created at home during their free time as a kind of "entertainment-work", common especially among European upper class women at the time.