Made by the middle of the thirteenth century, the small fragment shows silver-gilt and silk thread embroidery in underside couching, stem stich and split stitch. The ground material is in silk, and may have been imported from the Mediterranean. Other fragments from the tomb are housed in the British Museum and Worcester Cathedral (click here).
This fragment, and in particular its scrolling decoration, has been compared to the fragments of stockings/boots, also worked in opus anglicanum, preserved in Trondheim, Norway.
Source: BROWNE, Clare, Glyn DAVIES, and M.A. MICHAEL (2016). English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, pp. 128-130.
V&A online catalogue (retrieved 30 October 2016).
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