Jacobean embroidery
Jacobean embroidery refers to
King James I of England
in first quarter of the 17th century.
The term is usually used today to describe a form of
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.
Designs
Often based on tree of life imagery, curving branches with large flowers were a typical design. Early crewel embroideries exclusively used wool thread on linen (modern crewel embroidery encompasses a broader range with the only requirement being extensive use of crewel stitch variations).[3]
Legacy
Jacobean embroidery was carried by British colonists to
Deerfield embroidery movement
of the 1890s revived interest in colonial and Jacobean styles of embroidery.
Gallery
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Sketch of a leaf worked in indigo, brown, and light green[1]
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Portion of a 17th-century hanging "with a conventional representation
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Embroidered wool-work curtain of the 17th or 18th century[2]
See also
- 1600–1650 in fashion
- Crewel embroidery
- Margaret Laton's embroidered jacket
- Christopher Shawe
- Oes
Notes
References
- Christie, Mrs. Archibald (Grace Christie), Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912, online at Project Gutenberg
- Fitzwilliam, Ada Wentworth and A. F. Morris Hands, Jacobean Embroidery, Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor, Keegan Paul, 1912
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jacobean embroidery.
- Surviving Jacobean embroidered jacket as the Museum of Costume
- Jacobean Embroidery, by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands, 1912, from Project Gutenberg