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    English Embroidery - Victoria and Albert Museum
    English Embroidery - Victoria and Albert Museum
    English Embroidery - Victoria and Albert Museum
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    English Embroidery - Victoria and Albert Museum

    By Barbara J. Morris

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    Embroidery has always been a popular art in England, and records show that from Anglo-Saxon times the English were skilled in the craft. The earliest surviving examples are all ecclesiastical. Portions of a magnificent stole and maniple (Plate 1 in this book), dating from about A.D. 915, were found in the tomb of St. Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral, and are now preserved in the Cathedral library. The stole and maniple are embroidered in coloured silks and gold thread, and bear inscriptions stating that they were made for Friedestan, Bishop of Winchester, by order of Queen Aelfflaeda, the wife of Edward the Elder. This is the only English embroidery dating from before the Norman conquest that has been preserved and apart from the Bayeux Tapestry very little work of a date earlier than the middle of the 13th century is now extant. This and many other examples of early English embroidery are displayed in this book.
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 7, 2016
    ISBN9781473355330
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      English Embroidery - Victoria and Albert Museum - Barbara J. Morris

      VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM

      ENGLISH

      EMBROIDERY

      BY

      BARBARA J. MORRIS

      Department of Circulation

      Contents

      ENGLISH EMBROIDERY

      TECHNICAL NOTES

      ENGLISH EMBROIDERY

      EMBROIDERY has always been a popular art in England, and records show that from Anglo-Saxon times the English were skilled in the craft. The earliest surviving examples are all ecclesiastical. Portions of a magnificent stole and maniple (Plate 1), dating from about A.D. 915, were found in the tomb of St. Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral, and are now preserved in the Cathedral library. The stole and maniple are embroidered in coloured silks and gold thread, and bear inscriptions stating that they were made for Friedestan, Bishop of Winchester, by order of Queen Aelfflaeda, the wife of Edward the Elder. This is the only English embroidery dating from before the Norman conquest that has been preserved and apart from the Bayeux Tapestry very little work of a date earlier than the middle of the 13th century is now extant. The Bayeux Tapestry, now generally accepted to have been made in England towards the end of the 11th century, is one of the greatest, and certainly the most famous, of all existing embroideries. The embroidery is on a linen strip, just over two hundred and thirty feet long and about twenty inches wide, worked in wool in laid work, and outline stitch, chiefly in blue, red, green, yellow and black. The original is preserved at Bayeux but a complete coloured photographic reproduction is in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

      In the 13th and early 14th centuries English church embroidery reached the peak of its excellence. This ‘opus Anglicanum’ (English work) was justly famed abroad and many of the finest pieces found on the Continent are of English origin. Several superb examples of this

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