Embroidery
16th Century Blackwork Embroidery
A booke of curious and strange inventions, called the first part of Needleworkes, William Barley, 1596
A Schole-house for the Needle, Richard Schorleyker, 1632
A second booke of flowers, fruicts, beasts, birds and flies exactly drawne, George Humble, 1635(?) -- good source of designs for Elizabethan slips etc
Anglo Saxon Embroidery Techniques
Designs, Period. by Carol Hanson/Caryl de TrecessonA Book of Medieval, Renaissance, and Heraldic Patterns for Needlework, with Many Charted from Original Embroidery Pieces of the Period
Developing Your Own Pattern Book
Eachna's Celtic Garb Ornamentation Page
Embroidery Patterns from Extant Patterns
English Embroidered Bookbindings; by Cyril Davenport
Fill-in Patterns from Sixteenth Century Blackwork Embroideries
Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraits by Federic Vinciolo (lace and needlework patterns, 1606, first edition 1587)
Medieval / Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
Society Officers' Badges for Counted Cross-Stitch
Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs
West Kingdom Needleworkers Guild
The Worshipful Company of Broiderers