Rare Elizabethan Silk Embroidery with Saints, Insects, Pea-pods: C16th English red and white embroidery An exquisite micro beaded Victorian

An exquisite micro beaded Victorian pouch bag from England and dating from the 19th century

Hand woven in beautifully soft muted colours these carriage pillows or cushions are traditional Swedish folk art ‘Agedyna’

which will suit most interior settings

probably Turkey in the first half of the 19th century

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Rare Elizabethan Silk Embroidery with Saints, Insects, Pea-pods: C16th English red and white embroidery An exquisite micro beaded VictorianThe 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