Couching

Goldwork Embroidery of Kievan Rus’

Today, I’d like to share with you the following article: Новицкая, М.А. “Золотная вышивка Киевской Руси.” Byzantinoslavica, 1972(33), pp. 42-50.…

Podeai (singular: podea) are an embroidered fabric item used in Eastern Orthodox churches to adorn and show honor to particularly…

The title of this work was perhaps the hardest part to translate. Dragotsennost’ is typically used to mean “gemstone”, but clearly…

This article by E. Yu. Katasonova is a great overview of medieval Russian goldwork embroidery. It covers mentions of goldwork…

For today’s post, I’d like to present a decorative embroidered griffin, worked in a laid and couched stitch commonly referred…

I’m starting a new piece, this time a rendition of my wife’s heraldry. Here is Cwen’s registered device: Per fess…

In my previous post, I completed the gold and pearl work for my embroidered heraldry, and appliqued it to the fabric…

(See my previous posts on this project here, here, and here.) In my last post, I appliqued the goldwork to my pouch material.…