Digitized Materials from the Library's Rare Book Collection

John Long's Coverled Book is a handwritten manuscript containing diagrams and instructions for the weaving of geometric patterns into coverleds, or coverlets. The instructions are for double weaving on a loom, which is also called a summer and…

"This is a rare example of a printed book containing the suites of illustrations created by the Martinet enterprise at the end of the 1760s. A team of artists created six illustrations for a projected series of luxury editions of opéras-comiques,…

Published in 1567, "La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorti di ricami…" is a pattern book that provided designs for the elaborate lacework and embroidery of the period. These pattern books were designed to be portable and easily handled,…