What embroidery motifs are acceptable? Do we simply look at other period sources, such as manuscripts, architecture, and the Bayeux tapestry and take elements from that?
Motifs. Now there’s a question! The only Anglo-Saxon secular embroidery that we have are small pieces of vine scroll, and on the Llangorst textiles, inhabited vine scroll with what appear to be peacocks and bunches of grapes. This last could be counted thread embroidery, or, some experts think the design may be woven in the cloth. The jury is out. Viking motifs – well, you couldn’t do better than look at http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikresource.html – Viking embroidery stitches and motifs. And there are also the Oseberg textiles. These motifs are mostly couched circles – rather like the Olympic Games motif – with small backward facing quadrupeds in them. They also used strips of decorative silk sewn into their clothes.
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