- Jacobean embroidery
Jacobean embroidery refers to
embroidery styles that flourished beginning in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of theseventeenth 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-plywool yarn onlinen . Popular motifs in Jacobean embroidery, especiallycurtain s for bed hangings, are theTree of Life and stylized forests, usually rendered as exotic plants arising from a landscape or "terra firma" withbird s,stag s,squirrel s, and other familiar animals.Christie, Grace: "Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving", London 1912]Origins
Early Jacobean embroidery often featured scrolling floral patterns worked in colored silks on linen, a fashion that arose in the earlier
Elizabethan era . Embroidered jackets were fashionable for both men and women in the period 1600-1620, and several of these jackets have survived.Legacy
Jacobean embroidery was carried by British colonists to
Colonial America , where it flourished. TheDeerfield embroidery movement of the 1890s revived interest in colonial and Jacobean styles of embroidery.Gallery
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1600-1650 in fashion
*Crewel embroidery
*Margaret Laton's embroidered jacket External links
* [http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseAction=SM.nav&UUID=0C4DD2BF-7BCE-4C68-833AB837AAD7631B Surviving Jacobean embroidered jacket as the Museum of Costume]
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18971 Jacobean Embroidery] , by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands, 1912, fromProject Gutenberg Notes
References
*Christie, Mrs. Archibald (Grace Christie), "Embroidery and Tpestry Weaving", London, John Hogg, 1912, online at [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20386/20386-h/20386-h.htm Project Gutenberg]
*Fitzwilliam, Ada Wentworth and A. F. Morris Hands, "Jacobean Embroidery, Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor", Keegan Paul, 1912
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