Details
AN APPLIQU NEEDLEWORK SLIP
Late 16th Century
Embroidered in coloured silks and wools in petit and gros point with a pelican and cricket beneath a flowering shrub, a bird in the branches, re-applied to a later voided velvet ground, wear and re-workings
12 in. x 13 in. (31 cm. x 39 cm.)
Literature
Compare plate 69, George Wingfield Digby, Elizabethan Embroidery.
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