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Here Be Drolleries

Here Be Drolleries: Hundreds of Patterns Graphed from Medieval Sources
Spies, Nancy

Spiral Bound $30.00
ISBN 978-0-9718960-2-4
Sexton Printing, 2007.
194 pages.

Here Be Drolleries is a second treasure trove of over 400 designs graphed from medieval sources. You can use these patterns for any kind of needlework and handwork, such as cross-stitch, knitting, or crochet, for weaving or mosaic work, or even stenciling a child's room.

Nancy Spies is the author of Ecclesiastical Pomp and Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands (2000), Here Be Wyverns: Hundreds of Patterns Graphed from Medieval Sources ( 2002), and Anna Neuper's Modelbuch: Early Sixteenth-Century Patterns for Weaving Brocaded Bands (2003). She is also the creator of single cross-stitch patterns inspired by medieval designs.