[Mid] quilting being period

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The only quilt that I have seen pictures of is (I think) Italian 15th c.
It has scenes from the story of Tristan and Isolde, with brief captions.
I have been told that it was done in back stitch, not the usual running
quilting stitch. The story was set up like a Sunday cartoon, but with
more blocks. If you took scenes from King Arthur stories, drew them
very simply, and set them between barley sugar (like a braid of two
rather than three) or within arcades, I think you would have something
very lovely. (This is not the Society for Compulsive Authenticity, but
I like to do things reasonably based on period sources.)

This, of course, is a quilt. If you are thinking of colored embroidery
on a coverlet, I do not know of an example that would be helpful.

There are wonderful huge hangings with animals, real and fictional, done
in pattern darning, and further ornamented with cross stitch designs on
the borders, done all over northern europe in the 14th and 15th century.
They would be the right size. I do not know if they were used other
than on hangings. So many articles that got used did not survive, so a
lot of our extant pieces are less "practical", like church hangings.

Lady Carllein

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Received on Mon Jan 5 15:56:41 1998