Rare Elizabethan Silk Embroidery with Saints, Insects, Pea-pods: C16th English red and white embroidery Birds and trees in may

Birds and trees in may variations appeared between 1814 and 1816’

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

Rare Elizabethan Silk Embroidery with Saints, Insects, Pea-pods: C16th English red and white embroidery Birds and trees in mayThe 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