Jeanine in Canada of Italian Needlework gives us the heads-up about a vintage Italian stitchery book that is now available free online. She quotes the book’s title page:
82 plates, designs for alphabets, monograms, companies, insignias, initials, symbols, heraldic decorations, artistic embroidery and women’s works, leather embossing, metal engraving. Motifs for decorators, engravers, jewellers, etc.
I’ve definitely got to get my hands on that! Go to her blog post for the link to the book.
Lovely! Thanks Denise. My son and his sweetie and another couple are touring around in Italy right now! (Must be nice huh?)