In embroidery the character of the ornament depends principally, of course, on the technical process; regarding our plate, however, the immense difference between Figs. 3 and 4 on the one side and Figs. 3 and 5 on the other, results from the circumstance, that the former figures betray a strong Gothic influence, whilst in the latter the artist followed rather Oriental examples. Especially the elegant interlacing in Fig. 5, as well as the beautiful manner, in which the surfaces in Figs. 1 and 5 are filled up, recall Eastern ornaments to the beholder's mind; the weaving in Fig. 7 decidedly bearing the stamp of a marked affinity with Persian style.  But notwithstanding all that, Renaissance preserves in these patterns its peculiar nature and its original-features, (Figs. 1, 5,. 6.) The embroidery in Fig. 5 was executed in the first years of the 17th century, at which time the silk-embroiderers of Munich were far and wide renowned.