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The needles excellency a new booke wherin are diuers admirable workes wrought with the needle ; newly inuented and cut in copper for the pleasure and profit of the industrious.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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can nere deface By these comparisons comparing fit The noble worth of Needle-workes high grace Then learne faire Damsels learne your times to spend In this which such high praisings doth commend 2 Katharine first married to Arthur Prince of Wales and afterward to Henry the 8. King of England I Read that in the seauenth King Henries Raigne Faire Katherine Daughter to the Castile King Came into England with a pompous traine Of Spanish Ladies which she thence did bring She to the eight King Henry married was And afterwards diuorc'd where vertuously Although a Queene yet shee her dayes did pas In working with the Needle curiously As in the Tower and places more beside Her excellent memorials may be seene Whereby the Needles praise is dignifide By her faire Ladyes and her selfe a Queene Thus for her paynes here her reward is iust Her workes proclaime her praise though she be dust 3 Mary Queene of England and wife to Philip King of Spaine HEr Daughter Mary here the Scepter swaide And though she were a Queene of mighty power Her memorie will neuer be decaide Which by her workes are likewise in the Tower In Windsor Castle and in Hampton Court In that most pompous roome cal'd Paradice Who-euer pleaseth thither to resort May see some workes of hers of wondrous price Her Greatnesse held it no dis-reputation To take the Needle in her Royall hand Which was a good example to our Nation To banish idlenesse from out her Land And thus this Queene in wisedome thought it fit The Needles worke pleas'd her and she grac'd it 4 Elizabeth Queene of England and Daughter to King Henry the eight VVHen this great Queene whose memory shall not By any tearme of time be ouercast For when the world and all therein shall rot Yet shall her glorious fame for euer laft When she a Maide had many troubles past From Iayleto Iayle by Maries angry spleene And Wood-stocke and the Tower in prison fast And after all was Englands Peerelesse Queene Yet howsoeuer sorrow came or went She made the Needle her companion still And in that exercise her time she spent As many liuing yet doth know her skill Thus was she still a Captiue or else Crown'd A Needle-woman Royall and renown'd 5 The Right Honourable Vertuous and learned Lady Mary late Countesse of Pembrooke A Patterne and a Patronesse she was Of vertuous industry and studious learning And she her earthly Pilgrimage did passe In Acts which were high honour most concerning Braue Wilton-house in Wiltshire well can show Her admirable workes in Arras fram'd Where men and beasts seeme like trees seeme to grow And Art surpass'd by Nature seemes asham'd Thus this renowned Honourable Dame Her happy time most happily did spend Whose worth recorded in the mouth of fame Vntill the world shall end shall neuer end She wrought so well in Needle-worke that she Nor yet her workes shall ere forgotten be 6 The Right Honourable and religious Lady Elizabeth Dormer Wife to the late Right Honourable the Lord Robert Dormer deceased THis Noble Lady imitates time past Directs time present teacheth time to come And longer then her life her laud shall last Workes shewes her worth though all the world were dumbe And though her Reuerend selfe with many dayes Of honourable age is loaden deepe Yet with her Needle to her worthy praise Shee 's working often ere the Sunne doth peepe And many times when Phoebus in the West Declined is and Luna shewes her head This antient honour'd Lady rests from Rest And workes when idle sloath goes soone to bed Thus she the Needle makes her recreation Whose well-spent paines are others imitation To all degrees of both sexes that loue or liue by the laudable imployment of the Needle IF any aske to whom these lines are writ I answere vnto them that doe inquire For since the worlds creation none was yet Whose wants did not the Needles helpe desire And therefore not to him or her or thee Or them or they I doe not write at all Nor to particulars of hee or shee But generally to all in generall Then let not Pride looke scuruily a-scewe Without the Needle Pride would naked goe Nor yet let Scorne cry pish and tush and mew Scorne is forgetfull much in doing so Nor yet let any one presume to prate And call these lines poore trifles by me pend Let not opinion be preiudicate But mend it ere they dare to discommend So fare-thou-well my wel-deseruing Booke I meane the workes deserts and not my lines I much presume that all that on it looke Will like and laude the workemans good designes Fooles play the fooles but 't is through want of wit Whilst I to wisedomes censure doe submit FINIS Iohn Taylor LXVII XXXVII VI XXX XXXVIIII XXIII XXX XXXXIII XXXXIII XXXXI XXXXI XXXXV XXXXV XXXXV XXXXI LXXXI XXII XII LX XXXV VIII XXVI Gen. 3.7 Embroydery antient Exod. 26.1 Chap. 28.2 3 4 5 6. I say here are the grounds and directions for many more workes then are in this Booke Psal. 45.
THE NEEDLES EXCELLENCY A New Booke wherin are diuers Admirable Workes wrought with the Needle Newly inuented and cut in Copper for the pleasure and profit of the Industrious Printed for Iames Baler and are to be sold at the Signe of the Marigold in Paules Church yard 1631 THE PRAISE OF THE NEEDLE TO all dispersed sorts of ARTS and TRADES I write the Needles praise that neuer fades So long as Children shall be got or borne So long as Garments shall be made or worne So long as Hemp or Flax or Sheepe shall beare Their linnen-woollen fleeces yeare by yeare So long as Silk-worms with exhausted spoyle Of their owne Entrailes for mans gaine shall toyle Yea till the world be quite dissolu'd and past So long at least the Needles vse shall last And though from Earth his being did begin Yet through the fire he did his honour win And vnto those that doe his seruice lacke Hee 's true as steele and mettle to the backe He hath I perse eye small single sight Yet like a Pigmey Polipheame in fight As a stout Captaine brauely he leades on Not fearing colours till the worke be done Through thicke and thinne he is most sharpely set With speede through stitch hee will the Conquest get And as a Soldier Frenchefyde with heate Maim'd from the warres is forc'd to make retreate So when a Needles point is broke and gone No poynt Mounsier hee 's maim'd his worke is done And more the Needles honour to aduance It is a Taylors Iauelin or his Launce And for my Countries quiet I should like That Women-kinde should vse no other Pike It will increase their peace enlarge their store To vse their tongues lesse and their Needles more The Needles sharpenesse profit yeelds and pleasure But sharpenesse of the tongue bites out of measure A Needle though it be but small and slender Yet is it both a maker and a mender A graue Reformer of old Rents decayde Stops holes and seames and desperate cuts displayde And thus without the Needle we may see We should without our Bibbs and Biggings be No shirts or smockes our nakednesse to hide No Garments gay to make vs magnifyde No Shadowes Shapparoones Caules Bands Ruffes Cuffes No Kerchiefes Quoyfes Chin-clowtes or marry-Muffes No Cros-cloathes Aprons Hand-kerchiefes or Falls No Table-cloathes for Parlours or for Halls No Sheetes no Towels Napkins Pillow-beares Nor any Garment man or woman weares Thus is a Needle prou'd an Instrument Of profit pleasure and of ornament Which mighty Queenes haue grac'd in hand to take And high-borne Ladies such esteeme did make That as their Daughters Daughters vp did grow The Needles Art they to their children show And as 't was then an exercise of praise So what deserues more honour in these daies Then this which daily doth it selfe expresse A mortall enemy to idlenesse The vse of Sewing is exceeding old As in the sacred Text it is enrold Our Parents first in Paradice began Which hath descended since from man to man The Mothers taught their Daughters Sires their Sons Thus in a line succesfiuely it runs For generall profit and for recreation From generation vnto generation With worke like Cherubims Embroidered rare The Couers of the Tabernacle were And by th' Almighties great command wee see That Aarons Garments broydered worke should be And further God did bid his Vestments should Be made most gay and glorious to behold Thus plainely and most truely is declar'd The Needles workes hath still bin in regard For it doth ART so like to NATVRE frame As if IT were HER Sister or the SAME Flowers Plants and Fishes Beasts Birds Flyes Bees Hils Dales Plaines Pastures Skies Seas Riuers Trees There 's nothing neere at hand or farthest sought But with the Needle may be shap'd and wrought In clothes of Arras I haue often seene Men figurde counterfeits so like haue beene That if the parties selfe had bin in place Yet ART would vye with NATVRE for the grace Moreouer Poesies rare and Annagrams Signifique searching sentences from Names True Historie or various pleasant fiction In sundry colours mixt with Arts comixion All in Dimension Ouals Squares and Rounds Arts life included within Natures bounds So that Art seemeth meerely naturall In forming shapes so Geometricall And though our Country euery where is fil'd With Ladies and with Gentlewomen skil'd In this rare Art yet here they may discerne Something 's to teach them if they list to learne And as this Booke some cunning workes doth teach Too hard for meane capacities to reach So for weake learners other workes here be As plaine and easie as are A B C. Thus skilfull or vnskilfull each may take This Booke and of it each good vse may make All sorts of workes almost that can be nam'd Here are directions how they may befram'd And for this Kingdomes good are hither come From the remotest parts of Christendome Collected with much paines and industry From scorching Spaine and freezing Moscouye From fertill France and pleasant Italy From Poland Sweaden Denmarke Germany And some of these rare Patternes haue bin fet Beyond the bounds of faithlesse Mahomet From spacious China and those Kingdomes East And from great Mexico the Indies West Thus are these workes farre fetcht and deerely bought And consequently good for Ladies thought Nor doe I derogate in any case Or doe esteeme of other teachings base For Tent-worke Raisd-worke Laid-worke Frost-worke Net-worke Most curious Purles or rare Italian Cut-worke Fine Ferne-stitch Finny-stitch New-stitch and Chain-stitch Braue Bred-stitch Fisher-stitch Irish-stitch and Queene-stitch The Spanish-stitch Rosemary-stitch and Mow-stitch The smarting Whip-stitch Back-stitch and the Cros-stitch All these are good and these we must alow And these are euery where in practise now And in this Booke there are of these some store With many others neuer seene before Here Practise and Inuention may be free And as a Squirrell skips from tree to tree So Maides may from their Mistresse or their Mother Learne to leaue one worke and to learne another For here they may make choyce of which is which And skip from worke to worke from stitch to stitch Vntill in time delightfull practise shall With profit make them perfect in them all Thus hoping that these workes may haue this guide To serue for ornament and not for pride To cherish vertue banish idlenesse For these ends may this booke haue good successe Here follow certaine Sonnets in the Honourable memory of Queenes and great Ladies who haue bin famous for their rare Innentions and practise with the Needle I King Dauid by an apt similitude Doth shew with Maiesty the Church her worth And to a Kings faire Daughter doth alude Where to her Spouse he brauely brings her forth In Garments wrought of Needle-worke and Gold Resplendent and most glorious to the eye Whose out-side much more glory did infold The presence of th'ternall Maiesty Thus may you see Records of holy Writ Set downe what Death or Time