Hi Everybody: A little confusion is that the title Bronwen quotes (SIngulier et nouveaux pourtraicts ...) is not the title the book was published under when the facsimile copy that is on the Arizona website was made. You can find it under Vinciolo in the alphabetic author's listing, and the title is given as "I Singolari e Nuovi Disegni" This book is also produced in English as "Designs for Renaissance Lace and Embroidery".
I found Bronwen's unicorn (at least, I think it's the same pattern) in the Vinciolo book on the Arizona webpage. The URL for the PDF of the book is http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/vfv_lace.pdf and the pattern is one of the last of the "point couppe" patterns - it is taken from the right-hand scallop of the two shown on the page confusingly denoted as page K3 (page 48 of the 98 pages in the PDF file). These scallops are certainly curved. I may have misunderstood the original posting - I was thinking about reticella where the entire piece is curved (such as the piece gently curving down the length of the bodice in the original painting that started all of this) rather than the individual curved scallops, which are achieved with laid threads as in the unicorn pattern. In Section H in the book (pages 38 - 41 of the PDF file), you will see patterns for a series of tapered stomachers. Here the shaping is achieved, I think, by just outlining the desired shape on the original woven fabric, and then removing the appropriate threads inside the outlining and continuing as if the squares were not cut through (hope you can understand what I'm trying to say here, but I know I'm not expressing it well). So what I was getting at is that the squares aren't tapered, just cut off. Well, that was a whole lot of writing for a simple statement. I'll stop now. Hope this helps. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On 2013-04-08, at 4:10 PM, Susan Reishus wrote: > "Arizona lace books are listed in alphabetical order of author." > > I realize > that, as I have ventured into that venue for at least 16 years. > Unfortunately, I couldn't find it after a couple of runs of the whole list of > offerings when the alphabet failed. Perhaps vision issues. I went quickly > through the forwarded link, > > http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vinciolo/ > and didn't > find the curved piece. May have gone too fast. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
