Anaa Neuper's Modelbuch
by Nancy Spies with Ute Bargmann

Softcover, $12.00
ISBN 0971896011

Back cover: "A small, leather-covered book of handwritten patterns for gold brocaded tabletwoven bands resides in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, Germany. Written in 15127 by Anna Neuper, a seventy-year old nun in the St. Clare Convent in Nurnberg, it contains forty-five different patterns with variations and is among the earliest pattern books for any textile technique. These patterns have been transcribed into modern charts and are presented with background information by Nancy Spies with Ute Bargmann. This book is a must for every tablet weaver and anyone who can work from graphed designs."