The design is a scrolling floral border outlined in a single thread and filled with double lines of stem stitch, yellow or white in some places, and blue or green in others. Elizabeth Crowfoot, who studied the fragment, compared it to the tenth century fragment from a woollen cushion found at Mammen, Denmark.
Sources:
- CROWFOOT, Elisabeth (1990). 'Textile fragments from 'relic boxes' in Anglo-Saxon graves', in: Textiles in Northern Archaeology, ed. by Penelope Walton and John-Peter Wild, pp. 47-56. North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles, Monograph 3. London: Archetype Publications.
- HORN, Peter C. (2015). The Kempston Embroidery. download here.
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 29 Octobeer 2016).
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