Sam Fogg is a leading dealer in Medieval Art. The current exhibition ‘Late Medieval and Renaissance Textiles’ is taking part in London Art Week Summer 2018. I was thrilled to see some amazing Medieval embroidery here. When I went to the Opus Anglicanum exhibition at V&A a couple of years ago, we could only see […]
It’s been a while since the last post… Inspired by Opus Anglicanum, my last post was about split stitch, and this time I’m writing about underside couching. In English Medieval Embroidery, underside couching is often done with metal thread and linen thread. Since my design is a tiny grapevine, I decided to try with silk […]
Opus Anglicanum means ‘English Work’ in Latin. English Medieval Embroidery exhibition is now on at Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. I’m a member of V&A, and I went to a members’ event yesterday. There was a Curator Talk at The Lydia Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre at V&A. I could see some familiar faces […]
