Our seventeenth calendar post is an embroidery. From Skå church, Sweden. It’s an Opus Anglicanum work, from England.
Here we can see a close up on the embroidery. Silk and gold on linen. The silk is sewn in split stitch. The embroidery is of the highest class.
The item dates to 1250- 1350 AD. Most likely 1330-1350.
Now in collections of Historiska museet, Sweden
I would love to see the backside of this
We are going to come back to this beauty a bit later.
It deservs a big blog post. Hopefully we can get a look of the backside too.
/ Maria