Editing Crewel embroidery (section)

==== Elizabethan Period ====
[[File:Stool_MET_DP159798.jpg|thumb|Embroidered cushion cover, 1601, British (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]]
Embroidery for household furnishings during the Elizabethan era was often worked using silk and wool on canvas or linen canvas. Garment embroidery more often used silk or silk and silver threads. Many different stitches were used for the embroidery, including "back, basket, braid, pleated braid, brick, buttonhole, chain, coral, cross, long-armed cross, French knot, herringbone, link, long and short, running, double running, satin, seed, split, stem, tent as well as laid work and couching."<ref name=":22">{{Cite book|title=The art of crewel embroidery|last=Davis|first=Mildred J.|date=1962|publisher=[publisher not identified]|oclc=5805445}}</ref>{{Rp|16}}

Motifs frequently used in crewel embroidery of the period included coiling stems, branches, and detached flower designs.<ref name=":22" />{{Rp|16}} Some embroideries from the Elizabethan period used garden motifs for their design, as gardens themselves were enjoying a heyday. These embroideries were worked in silk or wool (crewel), and were used in the home to brighten the surroundings. Embroidered wall hangings, table carpets, and various forms of bed-hangings might all sport embroidered images. The length of valences made them ideal for embroidery that told a story of a number of episodes.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/embroideredgarde00beck|title=Embroidered gardens|author=Beck, Thomasina|date=1979|pages=6–7|publisher=Viking Press|isbn=0-670-29260-5|location=New York|oclc=4947170|url-access=registration}}</ref>