The Spanish Mandevile of Myracles. Or The Garden of curious Flowers
A 1618 London book printed by Bernard Alsop, a Spanish-language collection of marvels that Antonio de Torquemada wrote in the 1550s and 1560s, and kept on the shelves of the Boston Public Library. Its pictures are strips of woodcut border ornament: flowers, leaves and scrolling tendrils in dense black-on-cream repeats, some with a central panel and others as tiled bands. A designer could take the tiled bands as ready-made repeat patterns for edges, trims and textile borders.
