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Opulence in Ecclesiastical Embroidery

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

In 1981, a burial mound in southern Russia near Chingul was excavated. The archeologists working on the site found a…

This article provides an overview of archeological finds of goldwork embroidery fragments from medieval Russia. This includes some of the…

The location of this information has moved, and I’m still in the process of updating all my links. Please see…

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

The article traces the history of origin of ecclesiastical embroidery in Ancient Russia, the use of works of embroidery in…

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…

For a recent project, I decorated my new pouch with several tassels. I had not made tassels in quite some…

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