Rare Elizabethan Silk Embroidery with Saints, Insects, Pea-pods: C16th English red and white embroidery which will suit most interior

which will suit most interior settings

290 X 126cm

You would never get tired of looking at it there is so much detail and interest

They have a piece of this in the V&A collection T

I have only had one or two of this type of dress silk before

Rare Elizabethan Silk Embroidery with Saints, Insects, Pea-pods: C16th English red and white embroidery which will suit most interiorThe earliest embroidery weve ever had in our studio collection, this rare 16th century Elizabethan silk embroidery. With depictions of Saint Catherine (of the wheel) and a male Saint figure surrounded by flowering plants, pea pods, insects and on the left hand side a woman in a gable hood, under which was worn a coif which went out of fashion in the 1520s. Also shown and which are attributed to St Catherine, a wheel, a sword, a crown at her feet, a