A schole-house, for the needle ... (Here followeth certaine patternes of cut-works: and but once printed before. Also sundry sorts of spots, as flowers, birds and fishes &c. and will fitly serve to be wrought, some with gould, some with silke, and some with crewell, or otherwise at your pleasure.).
A needlework pattern book by Richard Shorleyker, published in London in 1632 for embroiderers and needlewomen, offering printed designs for cut-works and spot patterns to be worked in gold, silk or crewel. The pictures are crisp woodcut-style blocks of geometric bands, lozenges and interlace beside naturalistic birds, flowers and stylised scrolls, with a stippled pounced outline of a leafy motif that a designer could use for border repeats, lace-like geometry or traditional floral vocabulary.
