Stitches in Time: Medieval Embroidery in its Social Setting

Embroidery was an important decorative element in medieval art, known to exist but often overlooked. The surviving examples of the extraordinarily beautiful works created by the elegant stitches of a multitude of mostly unknown embroiderers over the centuries tend to be casually admired but intellectually overlooked. This survey does not deal with the techniques and methods of medieval embroiderers, but endeavours to draw attention to the place of embroidery as an overlooked component of medieval social history.