Tomo undecimo.
This is an eighteenth-century Italian plate volume of technical engravings, the eleventh tome of a work on textile manufacture, held by the Eisenbibliothek Schlatt. The plates are numbered by page and show looms, spinning wheels and weaving frames with captioned Italian labels and scale bars. A designer could take from them the precise, diagrammatic line work of old engraving, with clear hatching for wood, fabric and shadow.
