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  2. English embroidery - Wikipedia

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    This style was called Opus Anglicanum or "English work", and was famous throughout Europe. [2] With the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, the focus of English embroidery increasingly turned to clothing and household furnishings, leading to another great flowering of English domestic embroidery in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

  3. Jacobean embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Jacobean embroidery refers to embroidery styles that flourished in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of the 17th century. The term is usually used today to describe a form of crewel embroidery used for furnishing characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes worked in a variety of stitches with two-ply wool yarn on linen .

  4. Bargello (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    Bargello is a type of needlepoint embroidery consisting of upright flat stitches laid in a mathematical pattern to create motifs. The name originates from a series of chairs found in the Bargello palace in Florence, which have a "flame stitch" pattern. Traditionally, Bargello was stitched in wool on canvas. Embroidery done this way is ...

  5. Crewel embroidery - Wikipedia

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    The crewel technique is not a counted-thread embroidery (like canvas work), but a style of free embroidery.Crewelwork had its heyday in Britain in the 17th century, but has come in and out of fashion several times since then. [2]

  6. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching ... to generalize about their style and appearance. By the middle of the 17th century English, Dutch ...

  7. Blackwork - Wikipedia

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    Blackwork in silk thread on linen was the most common domestic embroidery technique for clothing (shirts, smocks, sleeves, ruffs, and caps) and for household items such as cushion covers throughout the reign of Elizabeth I, but lost popularity as a technique by the 17th century. [b] Historic blackwork embroidery is rare to find well-preserved ...