[MR] new book

[SNSpies at aol.com]

After so much arm twisting ... !

"Anna Neuper's Modelbuch: Early Sixteenth-Century Patterns for Gold Bands" by 
Nancy Spies (Jarrettsville MD: Arelate Studio, 2003), 56 pages, $12 (free 
shipping before 1 August!)

A small, leather-bound book of handwritten patterns for gold brocaded 
tabletwoven bands resides in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel, Germany.  
Written in 1517 by Anna Neuper, a seventy-year-old nun in the St. Clare 
Convent in Nurnberg, it contains forty-five different patterns with variations and 
is among the earliest pattern books for any textile technique.  These patterns 
have been transcribed into modern charts and are presented with background 
information by Nancy Spies with Ute Bargmann.  This book is a must for every 
tablet weaver and anyone who can work from graphed designs.

(It is not yet on my web site, but if anyone is interested, I can send them a 
jpeg of the front cover.)

Nancy

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Nancy Spies        Ingvild Josefsdatter, OL
Arelate Studio      Barony of Bright Hills, Atlantia
http://www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html