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This Lion Is 59 Meshes Tall

A page from a lace pattern book printed in Paris in 1588 does what every filet crochet chart still does: it draws a picture in squares and tells you how many to count.

Federico de Vinciolo, Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts, page 64 (recto), Paris, 1588. Woodcut, 20.5 × 16 cm. Accession 18.68(83). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0