price chart: 21,50 Euro

crosses: 200/464

kit:

- linen: 40 count
         - 16 threads/cm
- floss: silk *)
- needle
- instruction

71,50 Euro

 *)  Deviation between        reproduction and
       material might be        possible

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"By the end of the 16th century hardly any piece of outer clothing seems to have been made without the use of embroidery - it even extended to gloves, scarves, bonnets and hats - and Elisabethian dress would have been considered dowdy without it. No wonder quite small children had to start learning it, and sewing women became necessaties for the staffing of quite modest households.

Where were the designs for this varied needlework to be found? There were printed books of designs in Germany at this time... Without doubt, many ideas for designs were taken from ancient stone or wood carvings, or from books illustrating birds, flowers, or beasts.

These were worked on to a strip of rather coarse unbleached linen not more than eight or nine inches wide.