Thursday, January 30, 2020

Embroidery Designs - Holly Berries

I was recently reflecting on embroidery designs and decided that I would like to have more items decorated with my heraldry and with holly. Luckily, holly berries (or, at least, berries that could be holly) seem to have been quite a popular sixteenth century motif and I didn't have any trouble finding several designs.

From The Trevellyon Miscellany (1608) available on Pinterest

From The Trevellyon Miscellany available on Pinterest

From The Trevellyon Miscellany available on Pinterest

From The Trevellyon Miscellany (1608) available on Pinterest
  
From A Scholehouse for the Needle (1632),  individual pages reproduced on Pinterest
           

From A Scholehouse for the Needle, individual pages reproduced on Pinterest

An extant coif c. 1590 held in the V&A Museum, London


Embroidered panel c. 1600 available at Pinterest and held by the V&A Museum 


Coif decorated with currants or holly held by the Embroiderer's Guild London and reproduced in Elizabethan Stitches by Jacqui Carey ISBN 978-0-9523225-8-0, p. 84

Design from 'Ein New Kunstlich Modelbuch' by Peter Quentel c.1544, page 13r
Available at The Metropolitan Museum https://www.metmuseum.org/

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