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Jacobean embroidery refers to embroidery styles that flourished in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of the 17th 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 twoply wool yarn on linen.Popular motifs in Jacobean embroidery ...Crewel embroidery, or crewelwork, is a type of surface embroidery using wool.A wide variety of different embroidery stitches are used to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. The technique is at least a thousand years old. The origin of the word crewel is unknown but is thought to come from an ancient word describing the curl in the staple, the single hair of the wool.
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