GEMB08

[*] Red (DMC 347)

0 Gold (DMC 833) 0 Green (DMC 580) Qwhite (DMCEcru) @ Blue (DMC 519) @ Purple (DMC 327)

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PANEL, perhaps an apparel of alb or arnice, madę up frora fragments of embroidery. GERMAN, 14th cen tury. Coloured silks and gilt strip in satin stitch on linen.

44 thread per inch evemweave fabric.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Textiles department, framę 1-8, Cat# 1261-1864.

V_J

The Stitch

1.    On the original piece, The areas marked as gold are embroidered in gilt strip.

2.    Some of the colors on the original have faded. The areas marked as red on the pattern actually appear as a washed out pink, and the areas marked as blue may have been much darker originally.

3.    As in some of the other items on display at the V&A, the phrase "satin stitch" does not ref er to the common modern embroidery stitch, but to any stitch that covers the fabric completely and smoothly.

V_J

14th & 15th Cen tury German Counted Thread Embroidery VIII: a geometrie panel Copyright (c) 1994 Timothy I. Mitchell. This file may be reproduced and reprinted as long as the author is credited, and no fee is charged.