The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery By Alexandra Lester-Makin The first detailed analyses of all 43 known early medieval British embroideries. This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monographlength historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the first time all 43 embroideries believed to have been made in the British Isles and Ireland in the early medieval period.
Oxbow Books • May 2019 • 9781789251449 • £38.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 272 pages b/w and col illus. ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES
MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
THE LOST ART OF THE ANGLOSAXON WORLD
New research carried out on those embroideries that are accessible today, involving the collection of technical data, stitch analysis, observations of condition and wear-marks and microscopic photography supplements a survey of existing published and archival sources. The research has been used to write, for the first time, the ‘story’ of embroidery, including what we can learn of its producers, their techniques, and the material functions and metaphorical meanings of embroidery within early medieval Anglo-Saxon society.
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