Oh yes, I thought, this week’s E embroidery can be a nice little pomegranate in the embroidery style of Elizabeth I. When I was young, pomegranates were very special. They seemed to be available in about October round about the time of  Nottingham’s Goose Fair. They looked rather gorgeously exotic, promised much but were […]

  Damask and brocade are very similar in appearance, manufacture and origin, yet I love damask but don’t feel so amorous of brocade. This is probably because I find whitework very pleasurable and what is damask but woven whitework made on powered looms (using the Jacquard process) – think of all those heirloom tablecloths and […]