| The silk shoes and the crewel panel at the Connecticut Historical Society enlarge the meaning of the bed sheet in the Beinecke. |
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| To her, however, there was no distinction between plain linen and high-style crewel. |
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| I have tried to imitate such crewel work using embroidery floss rather than Persian wool like this panel uses. |
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| The original cloth of this crewel work was missing altogether, all that survived was the wool embroidery. |
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| She had been working half-heartedly at the crewel embroidered shawl for some time. |
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| Because many long stitches are used, crewel work is generally done on a frame or in a hoop. |
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| I have crewel yarn and silk thread, and I'm determined to make something of it. |
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| Wool is almost invariably used in crewel work and colourways are not as elaborate as in chain stitch. |
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| This two-day course teaches the techniques and stitches used in Jacobean crewel work or wool on linen. |
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| The Ashburnham hangings are based primarily on English crewel work bed hangings with more freely scrolling tree designs than is found in Mughal floorspreads. |
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| We had to learn to knit, crochet, crewel and do fine embroidery. |
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| The basic techniques include crewel work, needlepoint, cross-stitch embroidery, and quilting, as well as quillwork and featherwork. |
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| The emphasis this season was again on textured plain cloths, as well as surface treatments such as crewel work, embroidery and raised yarns. |
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| The initial fashion for crewel work dates from the 16th and, especially, the 17th centuries and was largely centred in England and its American colonies. |
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| The creation is often compared with the Bayeux tapestry because both use a technique called crewel embroidery to allow the design to dance freely across the surface of the canvas. |
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| Undoubtedly the Elizabethan and Jacobean vogue of using embroidered fabrics as hangings and furniture coverings accounts in part for the flourishing of crewel work at that time. |
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| She was a gifted seamstress, creating beautiful quilts, needlepoint and crewel works of art. |
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| She was a prolific enthusiast of needlework, doing crewel, needlepoint and cross-stitch, which she enjoyed making as gifts to friends and family. |
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| Accomplished in painting, quilting, crewel work and all types of crafts, she enjoyed the challenge of home decorating projects and the creativity of design. |
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| Other common names include cuy lippe, herb peter, paigle, peggle, key flower, key of heaven, fairy cups, petty mulleins, crewel, buckles, palsywort, plumrocks, tittypines. |
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| She was a member of the Thirteenth District President's Club, past president of the Shrewsbury Woman's Club and she belonged to the Crewel Sewing group. |
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