Jacobean embroidery

Early Jacobean embroidery often featured scrolling floral patterns worked in colored silks on linen, a fashion that arose in the earlier Elizabethan era. Embroidered jackets were fashionable for both men and women in the period 1600-1620, and several of these jackets have survived. ==Designs==

Often based on tree of life imagery, curving branches with large flowers were a typical design. Early crewel embroideries exclusively used wool thread on linen (modern crewel embroidery encompasses a broader range with the only requirement being extensive use of crewel stitch variations). ==Legacy==

Jacobean embroidery was carried by British colonists to Colonial America, where it flourished. The Deerfield embroidery movement of the 1890s revived interest in colonial and Jacobean styles of embroidery. Gallery File:17th century embroidered curtain motif.jpg|Pattern of a slip with flowers taken from a 17th-century embroidered curtain File:Jacobean leaf bed hanging 1659.jpg|Design of a leaf from a bed curtain dated 1659, worked in blue, green, and yellow worsted wool yarn on linen. File:Jacobean embroidery leaf.jpg|Sketch of a leaf worked in indigo, brown, and light green File:Linen Hanging 17th century.jpg|Portion of a 17th-century hanging "with a conventional representation File:Embroidered curtain 17th-18th century.jpg|Embroidered wool-work curtain of the 17th or 18th century ==See also==