The design for the vamp takes the form of a highly stylised, double floral motif, while the tongue design is that of a single stylised flower. The page and its designs come from a pattern book for embroidery by Margaretha Helm, who worked in Nuremberg as an embroiderer and a teacher of embroidery in the early eighteenth century. This particular page is included in the first of three volumes of embroidery designs by Helm that were printed in c. 1725. Volume One is called: Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen oder neu- erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch ('The Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle or newly invented Sewing and Embroidery book').
V&A online catalogue (retrieved 4th July 2016).
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