Embroidery Designs - Pomegranates

Some Renaissance embroidery designs with pomegranates:

Design from 'A Scholehouse for the Needle' by Richard Shorleyker, (1632), individual pages reproduced on Pinterest

Image taken from: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10526079n/f69.item

From The Trevellyon Miscellany (1608) available on Pinterest.  More information can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevelyon_Miscellany_of_1608

From The Trevellyon Miscellany (1608) available on Pinterest.  More information can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevelyon_Miscellany_of_1608

Completed Owl Tabbard

I thought you might like to see how the embroidered owl tabbard looked when it was completed. Sir Eva did a lovely job of cutting out and couching down all the slips, as well as drafting and putting the garment together and adding the couched dividers on the shoulders.

I also got to see how the eagle brustfleck (that I helped Sir Eva with previously) looked when worn:

Beaded Necklace in the Style of Lord Leicester's

 I recently made a necklace inspired by late period Elizabethan portraiture. 

This piece is made of agate and glass beads and is inspired by the necklace worn in this portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester c. 1560 (Portrait attributed to Steven van der Meulen [active: 1543 - 1563/4] and held in the Wallace Collection).

Image from: Wallace Collection Online - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

The necklace has three strands of tiger tail which the white glass beads are strung on, and all three wires go through the black agate beads. The ends are finished with a silver hook and rod clasp. I made the necklace shorter than Lord Leicester's because it was made for a lady to wear unadorned and her style is less flamboyant than his.