Anglo-Saxon Embroidery

A typology and brief discussion of some stitches that have been discovered on extant textiles from the period between the seventh and eleventh centuries in Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and related cultures.

Suggestions for embroidering Anglo-Saxon garments, based on placement of embellishment in illustrations of period clothing, and extant examples of Anglo-Saxon needlework. Includes pattern line drawings.

Some of the sports, games, music, verse, dancing, toys, and other pastimes of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Despite the full agricultural year that most people faced, there was always time for folk to partake in games, challenges, tests of skill and general larking about.

Saxon and Viking rondel embroidery designs suitable for embroideri es for court clothes as worn by the highest classes of English society around the 10th century.