Jacobean embroidery
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Jacobean embroidery refers to embroidery styles that flourished beginning in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of the seventeenth century.
The term is usually used today to describe a form of crewel embroidery used for furnishing characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes worked in a variety of stitches with two-ply wool yarn on linen. Popular motifs in Jacobean embroidery, especially curtains for bed hangings, are the Tree of Life and stylized forests, usually rendered as exotic plants arising from a landscape or terra firma with birds, stags, squirrels, and other familiar animals.[1][2]
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[edit] Origins
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Gallery
 Jacket embroidered with a pattern of willow leaves, c. 1610 |
 Sketch of a leaf worked in indigo, brown, and light green[1] |
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 Portion of a 17th century hanging "with a conventional representation of a forest; in the branches of the trees lodge all kinds of birds and beasts"[2] |
 Embroidered wool-work curtain of the 17th or 18th century[2] |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Surviving Jacobean embroidered jacket as the Museum of Costume
- Jacobean Embroidery, by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands, 1912, from Project Gutenberg
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d Fitzwilliam, Ada Wentworth and A. F. Morris Hands, Jacobean Embroidery, Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor, Keegan Paul, 1912
- ^ a b c d Christie, Grace: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London 1912
[edit] References
- Christie, Mrs. Archibald (Grace Christie), Embroidery and Tpestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912, online at Project Gutenberg
- Fitzwilliam, Ada Wentworth and A. F. Morris Hands, Jacobean Embroidery, Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor, Keegan Paul, 1912
