Manuscript weaving and dyeing manual: Färbebuch für Gottlob Friedrich Rose in Frohburg Anno 1769. Frohburg, 1769.
Manuscript on paper (186 x 160 mm). [47] leaves plus two blanks. Fraktur & cursive script. Illustrated with 11 pages (ff. 41v-46v) of weaving patterns. No visible watermarks. Leaves 2-8 with remnants of red wax adhesive. Some soiling and staining. Contemporary half calf (sheep?), the boards covered in very crude..... More
Album of watercolor and pen-and-ink designs for embroidery. [British Isles, ca. 1820-1830].
Folio (397 x 250 mm). 110 leaves [plus 29 blanks], of varying sizes, many on guards, of which 6 are large and folding, and 2 small loose sheets, containing dozens of highly finished pen-and-ink or watercolor floral and foliate embroidery designs. Some dampstaining at front with traces of mold, some..... More
Haandbog til Brodering og Tegning ... Förste Deel. Med XXVI illuminerede Kobbere, som angive de behörige Farver. Copenhagen: Glydendal, 1794.
Oblong folio (307 x 204 mm). 12 pp., 25 (of 26) engraved plates (without plate 1), all delicately colored in watercolor under the direction of the artist-publisher. Title within type-ornament border. First plate (pl. 2) somewhat soiled and with small ink splashes or spots, some marginal soiling elsewhere, a few..... More
Suite of etched floral embroidery designs, in two states, colored and uncolored. Leipzig, [ca. 1800].
Oblong folio (200 x 327 mm). 36 etched plates, comprising 18 plates each in two states, colored and uncolored (all the colored plates bound first, followed by the uncolored plates), all numbered in the plate at upper right, “Tab. I [-XVIII] 3ter Bd.,” nearly all signed by Netto, some with..... More
A pair of salesman’s pattern books, containing over one thousand finely woven textile samples. [probably Norwich, England, 1820s-1830s].
2 vols., agenda format (260 x 148/142 mm). 124 unnumbered leaves (75 and 49 leaves respectively) of wove paper (leaves [28] and [29] in the larger volume wider and folding), containing one thousand sixty-six highly varied woven wool textile samples (with no repetition): mounted on rectos only, within lithographic ornamental..... More