Medieval embroidery is incredibly detailed. In this video from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, we watch firsthand as contemporary embroiderer Rosie Taylor-Davies recreates the amazing Middle ...

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is to exhibit ‘surviving examples of exquisite craftsmanship’ in English Medieval embroidery, encompassing gold, silver and pearl work fit for, and indeed used by, a ...

Metal hasn’t had much of a role in the male wardrobe since we ditched suits of armor, but it persists through the art of bullion wire embroidery. This fine technique, which originated in Medieval ...

Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan Huizinga claimed: “Modern man has no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of the medieval heart.” Crying ...

Crimson velvet and glittering gold make the heart beat faster, and the V&A’s new show of 100 works of priceless medieval embroidery does just that. Swirling ecclesiastic copes smothered in beautifully ...

Bayou's tapestry is said to have been made in the second half of the 11th century, which has not been so long since Norman Conquest occurred. The bayeux tapestry that has been kept for a long time in ...

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