Quoting E House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
And is this what was called Or Nue'?
Or nue is some of the most awesome needlework ever produced by human hands. The cardinal is Or Nue http://www.berlinembroidery.com/cardinal.htm The gold threads are couched down with red silk. How close together the couching stitches are makes the design. Here's some pictures http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid4/austria/vienna/museums/schatzkammer/order_of_the_golden_fleece/liturgical_vestments/ http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page486.html http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page473.html There's a book on the painter Campin by Thurleman that has some of the most awesome enlargements for these garments. Campin is believed to have produced the cartoons for the vestments. Here's a figure that I scanned from this book http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/SCA/Embroidery/OGF_campinPage166top.jpg http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/SCA/Embroidery/OGF_campinPage166.jpg generally, the faces and hands are done in split stitch. Jerusha -- who will learn to do this or die! ----- Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
