Creative machine embroidery designs

The colour illustration (Plate A) represents a most charming example of the needlework of the Elizabethan period : a side of a tunic belonging to Mrs. Buxton of acklingham, Suffolk. There are three pieces of the sleeves also existing, but the other parts are now lost. The ground is linen, the embroidery being in silks and silver-gilt thread. The pattern throughout is a simple repeat of roses, each on a straight stalk, with a leaf on either side. This work displays none of the exuberance so often seen in Elizabethan embroidery, but it is very pleasing nevertheless. For simple grace, it would be hard to choose between this and the exquisite embroidered binding of a Bible of the year 1583 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.* The book, which is believed to have belonged to Queen Elizabeth, is bound in crimson velvet, embroidered with a pattern of inter- lacing rose-stems in gold, silver, and colours.

Orphreys, embroidered, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Plate xvi, 41, 42 ; photographs of two with shields of Edward III. and John Grandison, Bishop of Exeter, note, 47 ; of fifteenth century on central and right of altar frontal, 49 ; fragments of, included in altar cloth at Lyng, 57 ; orphrey in South Kensing- ton Museum showing first symp- toms of degeneracy, 47; of early sixteenth century on chasu- ble of late fourteenth century

Mary, Queen of Scots, her liking for embroidery, 5 ; her skill in the art, 72, 82 ; embroidered panels at Hardwick associated with, 83 ; Hardwick Hall full of memorials of, 82

Hard wick Hall continued. older mansion near, the prison- house of Mary, Queen of Scots, 82 ; embroidered panel, with monogram of Mary, Queen of Scots, at, Plate xliii, 82, 83 ; panels of appliqud work, with initials of the Countess of Shrews- bury, at, Plate xliv, 83, 84 ; panel of applique* work, with crest of Hardwick, at, Plate xlv, 83, 84 ; erected by Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, 82

English embroidery, practised by both sexes in convents and monasteries, 2; mediaeval ex- amples in many cases wantonly destroyed, 3 ; famous on the Continent during thirteenth cen- tury, 15 ; examples of the twelfth century not numerous, 21 ; its best period the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, 26 ; that many early specimens are found abroad not surprising, 27 ; lions' or leopards' heads devices frequently used in, 28, 33 ; early fourteenth-century ex- example at Mount St. Mary's College, 36 ; examples from Cat- worth Church, Plate xiv, 39, 40 ; later subjects enclosed by foli- ated branch-work, 42 ; its decline during the fourteenth century, 46 ; examples of the fourteenth century neither skilful nor numer- ous, 46 ; orphreys of the fifteenth century on an altar frontal, Plate xxii, 49 ; materials in use towards the close of the fifteenth century, 50 ; developed a marked style towards the end of the fifteenth century, ib. ; scheme of orna- mentation, 51 ; ...

Decorative needlework an indica- tion of the social life of women, i Denny, Sir Anthony, pair of leather gloves said to have been given by Henry VIII. to, 77 Denny, Sir Edward, Knt., Banneret, Denny, Sir Edward, afterwards Earl of Norwich, pair of leather gloves given by James I.