The Art & Craft of Embroidery

embroidered panel

Leek Embroidery fragment (ecclesiastical). 17 x 20 cm.
EG 1993.2.

This ecclesiastical fragment is the most recently acquired Leek embroidery in the Embroiderers' Guild Muesum Collection It is of a rose motif embroidered in floss silk threads and Japanese gold metallic threads. The motif is worked as a slip and applied to a woven white silk damask ground.