Kirchenschmuck: Sammlung von Vorlagen für kirchliche Stickereien, Holz- & Metallarbeiten & Glasmalereien
Kirchenschmuck is a German pattern book of church decoration models compiled by editor Georg Dengler and published in 1857, drawn from the Heidelberg University Library collection and meant for embroiderers, woodworkers, metalworkers and stained-glass makers. Its plates show ecclesiastical ornament: embroidered altar hangings with stiff ornamental borders, colour-printed panels of interlaced crosses, and monochrome sheets of diaper patterns, initials and scrolled motifs. A designer could take the dense repeating grids, quatrefoil diaper fields and Gothic-revival foliage as ready structures for textile borders, tile or wallpaper repeats.
