Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne
A sixteenth-century Italian pattern book by Matteo Pagano, printed in 1554, offering cut-work and reticella lace designs for women to practise and ornament their work. The four woodcut plates show dense grids of geometric lace motifs, with squares, stars, diamonds and knotted interlace repeated across full-page panels. A designer could take from them modular repeat structures, where small square units combine into larger symmetrical fields, a useful model for tile, textile or border patterns.
