Tudor embroidery

Many of the 16th century embroideries that I examined during my spring excursion were ones that had been included in earlier publications on the history of embroidery. One of these was an exquisit…

Tudor embroidery

Tudor embroidery ideas

A couple months ago, I shared this hand embroidery pattern for a lily and buds in a diamond outline. And then there was this grape embroidery pattern and this wheat embroidery pattern from this past month… And to complete this collection of these “tiles” for hand embroidery, here’s a Tudor-style rose and bud in the ...

Tudor blackwork embroidery

A late 17th century English design with an ogival pattern enclosing harebells and narcissus. Recreated by hand with great attention to detail.

Elizabethan embrodery pattern for book cover

Three blackwork cuffs were embroidered, with two left purposely unfinished, using black silk floss and a high count of white evenweave linen to replicate Tudor blackwork embroidery for an upcoming TV adaptation of Philippa Gregory's novel on Catherine of Aragon.

Continuing with the silk and goldwork embroidered Tudor-style rose, here’s the next step in the stitching process: the inner petals worked in three colors of silk, in long & short stitch. By this point, the leaves and the color on the outside petals of the rose have been embroidered in satin stitch. The next step ...

Just a short little post today to share with you the embroidery pattern for this Tudor-style rose. I figured you may as well have the pattern if you want it, before I go step-by-step through my stitching process, right? There’s a PDF version below, too, with four different sizes included. If you’ve been reading along ...

Tudor Blackwork Embroidery: German Embroidery Patterns from 1529

Click here for the video that goes along with today's post. So, you have learned the basics of how to do blackwork embroidery. Now you're interested in creating your own historical patterns, but maybe don’t know where to start? First, you need to find historical blackwork embroidery designs. Here are links to some examples: "Sir Thomas More and Family" (portrait is at the Nostell Priory and is part of the National Trust Collection) "Portrait of a Boy with a Marmoset" portrait is at the…

Maree is offering a choice of three Elizabethan embroidered projects in this workshop....

The Word and Image Department of the V&A holds 60 original embroidery books including the only extant copy of Richard Shorleyker’s ‘Schole house for the needle’ of 1632. For modern embroiderers these little books still provide a source of inspiration, and for historians a fascinating insight into 16th century publishing and domestic history.

Embroidery techniques old and new are used to study an unusual object from the Library Collection.