Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 27. (Budapest, 2009)

Enikő SIPOS: Hungarian-Related Textile Works in Switzerland

23-24 Saint John from the chasublefrom Kassa and from the Gdansk chasuble (Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum) ly copied the originals. Their own designs and copies of patterns were important to both artists and workshops. In the designs the figures were depicted without the background, making them available for use in a variety of compositions, depending on the demands of the embroiderer or the client (fig. 17). Similarity between the figures in the surviving embroideries and designs has led the research to believe that glass painters and embroiderers used the same sketchbook of late-fourteenth-century Cambridge designs containing drawings of human figures, animals and birds.

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0 The figures of queens, apostles and saints on the pages of the "Brunswick Sketchbook" (from the Prague court) also closely resemble the figures that appear in contemporary Bohemian embroideries (fig. 18-21).

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1 The design was traced directly on the underlying fabric stretched on a frame, or transferred to the textile base by means of copies of the pattern. There were several ways to transfer 2D objects or embroidery patterns. Most usual147