Embroidery Applications

This is a catch-all place for how embroidery was used in our focus areas of history.

Embroidery on Clothing

General useful links

http://heatherrosejones.com/welshfaqs/clothing.html

BCE

Do we have evidence of Greek, Roman, Old Testament, or Coptic embroidery?

1AD - 500AD

• Palestinian tunic for a child -- when is that dated to?

500AD - 1000AD

• Charlemagne's Coronation Clothing ; technique? ; French ; around the web
• Llangorse Textile ; possibly embroidered, probably woven  ; Welsh ; Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art (book)
• Mammen Cloak ; wool embroidery ; Scandinavian ; ?

1000 - 1100

• Stole of St. Cuthbert ; Opus Anglicanum ; English ;

1100 - 1200

• Copes, Stoles, ecclesiastical garmets ; Opus Anglicanum ; English ;

1200 - 1300

• Copes, Stoles, ecclesiastical garmets ; Opus Anglicanum ; English ;
• Altar Frontal, late 14th century, German, Silk on linen (Met 69.106), but text says worked in wool.

Source: Embroidery from Europe | Subject Index | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Chasuble, ca. 1330–1350, English, Silk and silver-gilt thread and colored silks in underside couching, split stitch, laid-and-couched work, and raised work, with pearls on velvet (Met 27.162.1)

Source: Embroidery from Europe | Subject Index | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Panel from an Altar Frontal: The Flagellation, mid-14th century, Italian; Made in Florence, Silk and metallic threads on linen (64.27.18)

Source: Embroidery from Europe | Subject Index | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1300 - 1400

• Copes, Stoles, ecclesiastical garmets ; Opus Anglicanum ; English ;

1400 - 1500

• Copes, Stoles, ecclesiastical garmets ; Opus Anglicanum ; English ;

1500 - 1600

• coifs, dresses, smocks, ruffs, etc. ; blackwork, raisedwork, cutwork; Elizabethan England ; info all over the Web
• lace for edging shirts ; lace; Venice ; info all over the Web

post 1600

• Herald's Tabards ; dimensional gold couching ; --- ; Vienna museum

Embroidery on Household Furnishings

1000 - 1100

• Bayeux Tapestry ; Anglo-French ; info all over the Web

1300 - 1400

• Tristan Quilts ; Quilting ; wall hanging or bed covering

1500 - 1600

• Pillow Cushions ; Elizabethan England ; info all over the Web
• Bed Hangings ; Elizabethan England ; info all over the Web