Notes on Embroidery in England During the Tudor and Stuart Periods
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Gertrude Townsend surveys embroidery in England under the Tudors and Stuarts, working mainly from documentary sources such as wills, inventories, privy purse accounts, chronicles, Revels accounts and royal New Year's gift lists. She sets these records beside a few surviving pieces in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Topics include church vestments and the effect of the Reformation, gold and silver wire and purl, professional embroiderers and the Broderers Company, painters who supplied designs, and women's needlework. The surviving examples discussed are an Elizabethan doublet and coif, pillow covers, a sleeve, a cap, a sampler of 1656, needlework pictures, a casket and a crewel panel of 1686.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1961
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 35
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