“To redeem the monotony of plain surfaces has ever been the aim of all the arts, but especially that of the needle.” This quote appears in a hand-made facsimile of a book about Jacobean embroidery made by Laura Owens. The plates reproduced in faint black ink in Owens’ facsimile reproduction are largely obscured, however, by wild splotches, cross-hatchings and flashes of paint in many colors. Though ostensibly a book about embroidery, its subject in this remade version seems rather to be the paint which ‘embroiders’ the flat monochromatic pages, ‘redeeming the monotony’ of their plain surfaces.