Some Embroidery Patterns from Nicolo Zoppino's 1529 Book

Nicolo Zoppino was an Italian from Venice. His pattern book from 1529 was called Esemplario di Lavori. It's at the Met.

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Here are a few patterns from the above book:

 

 

Here is something interesting... if you have followed my blog, then you may be thinking you have seen the above patterns before. And you would be correct! For example, the above double cross pattern is not only in Zoppino's pattern book, but it is also in Giovanni Antonio Tagliente's 1530 (Italian) book and Nicolas Bassee's New Modelbuch (German) from 1568.

The above acorn pattern is not only in Zoppino's book, but also in Hans Hofer's Formbuchlein (German) from 1545 and Nicolas Bassee's New Modelbuch (German) from 1568. 

The triple cross pattern above the acorn pattern is not only in Zoppino's 1529 book, but it is also in Hans Hofer's Formbuchlein (German) from 1545.