The National Museums Scotland houses an embroidered picture, probably originating from Italy and dating to the second half of the seventeenth century. It represents the (Apocryphal) Biblical story of the Persian King Ahasverus and (the Jewish) Queen Esther, and the Persian vizier, Hamam (Book of Esther 7). The embroidery is worked in coloured wools and silks on a linen ground.
The National Museums of Scotland house an early seventeenth century purse from Britain. It is made of white satin and decorated with petit point embroidery in coloured silks.
The National Museums of Scotland house a late-nineteenth century bidang, a woman's skirt, from Borneo, Indonesia. It is made of cotton and decorated with shells, beadwork and embroidery.
A water colour and pastel by the Swiss-French artist, Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789) and dated 1762, shows Maria Amalia (1746-1804), archduchess of Austria and the future Duchess of Bourbon-Parma, engaged in embroidery.
A water colour and pastel by the Swiss-French artist, Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789) and dated AD 1762, shows the seven-year old Marie Antoinette of Austria (1755-1793) engaged in netting. She is holding a netting shuttle in her right hand.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art houses an embroidered book cover that dates to AD 1799. The cover is made of silk satin and paper, and is embroidered with silk thread. It measures 15.24 x 12.38 cm.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art houses an embroidered ceremonial hanging (tirai) from eastern Sumatra, Indonesia, which dates to the nineteenth century. The embroidery is worked with silk and gold thread embroidery, with pieces of mica and with lace made from metallic thread, on a woollen ground material. It measures 62.8 x 89.2 cm.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art houses an embroidered orphrey cross from Germany, which dates to the early fifteenth century. The embroidery is worked with silk and gold thread embroidery, using satin stitch and couching on the linen ground material.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York houses a chamba rumal (Hindi for handkerchief or covering; Chamba is the historical name for part of the province of Himachal Pradesh) in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent. It is made of cotton with silk, tinsel and metal thread embroidery. It measures 66 x 63.5 cm and has been dated to the eighteenth century.
The collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York includes a man's coat, a choga, which probably dates to the first half of the nineteenth century and may derive from Kashmir in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent. It is 133 cm long and 75 cm wide at the bottom. It is made of wool and is decorated with metal thread embroidery and applied braids.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum in London houses a nineteenth century Kashmir coat made of black wool with gold thread embroidery. The embroidery includes the paisley motif.
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London houses an eighteenth century chamba rumal (coverlet named after the former principality of Chamba, in the modern Himachal Pradesh state, Northwest India). It measures 89 x 82 cm and is made of cotton with silk thread embroidery. The decoration of the rumal is divided into sixteen panels, each containing a scene relating to Krishna.
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London houses a chamba rumal (coverlet from the former principality of Chamba, in the modern Himachal Pradesh, Northwest India). It is made of muslin with silk thread embroidery. The rumal shows a palace scene with Ganesha in the background. The embroidery, as will all rumals, is reversible and worked with a type of double darning stitch.
Chamba rumals are embroidered coverlet traditionally produced in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, in the ancient principality of Chamba, now part of the modern province of Himachal Pradesh, in and around the district of Kangra and its capital, Dharamshala.