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Learn 19th-century goldwork embroidery techniques as taught at the Imperial School of Needlework in Vienna, Austria. You will work seven small samples from the book “Die Kunst der Goldstickerei” published in 1902 by Amelie von Saint-George. The samples are worked with a range of gold threads and padding techniques. The Read more

My journey into researching medieval goldwork embroidery began over ten years ago. It is an ongoing labour of love, one that I am deeply grateful for. Over the years, I have had the privilege to visit originals, stitch replicas, and study other people’s research into this fascinating art form. The Read more

The original orphrey panel can be found on a chasuble at Museum Catherijneconvent, Utrecht, the Netherlands. The embroidery was made between c. AD 1500-1525 in the Northern Netherlands. You can either work this orphrey panel as a standalone or combine it with the orphrey panel figure of Elisabeth of Thuringia. Read more

This self-paced online course is all about learning or nué or shaded goldwork. The technique was used extensively in goldwork embroidery from the Low Countries in the late medieval period. The original embroidery of Elisabeth of Thuringia can be found on a red dalmatic kept at Museum Catharijneconvent in the Read more

In this self-paced online workshop, you will learn three of the most important couching techniques seen in medieval goldwork embroidery: diaper pattern couching with passing thread, basket weave couching with passing thread over string padding and diaper pattern couching with Japanese thread (similar to medieval membrane gold) over string padding. Read more

In this self-paced online course, you‘ll learn two of the most important medieval embroidery techniques: couching and silk embroidery. The designs have been adapted from the so-called Wolfgangskasel, exhibited at the Domschatzmuseum Regensburg. The bell chasuble, which was made soon after AD 1050, has a gold-embroidered forked cross. The ‘real’ Read more

In this self-paced online course, you‘ll learn three of the most important medieval embroidery techniques: beading, couching and silk embroidery. The design has been adapted from a chasuble orphrey fragment held at the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum in Munich, Germany (Inv. Nr. T 297). This particular scene is part of a famous Read more

In this self-paced online course, you‘ll dive into the world of Opus anglicanum.  A famous style of embroidery practised in England, and indeed the rest of Europe, in the 12th to the 15th centuries. The style is characterised by the use of very fine directional split stitch and underside couched Read more