Embroidered caskets

Embroidered casket, top depicts Rebecca at the Well, English c. 1660s

Once you start doing petit point it isn't too long before you run into somebody talking about caskets and not the type you put six feet under the ground, but a small box covered in the most exquisite needlework from the 17th century. Once I saw some of the miniature ones...well, I wanted one too,...

Casket with embroidered silk satin panels, England, 1650-1675.

An embroidered casket worked with figures representing The Five Senses, fitted with six pink moiré silk lined drawers with embroidered fronts, the top worked with a portrait of a lady and a gentleman, signed Leonora 1936-37--12.5in x 13in x 8in, 20th century in 17th century style

Rebecca Pearson has finished her uniquely designed and highly creative vision for a double casket. I asked her if I could post the pictures...

There are embroidery projects, and then there are Embroidery Projects. And Janice Gail's embroidered casket is definitely the latter - an Embroidery Project Extraordinaire! Today, I'd like to share some photos of her masterpiece with you so that you have something enchanting to explore over th

Dutch Tulips & Glittering Gold Scrolls If you love 17th c embroidery & embroidered caskets, you will have no doubt come across at least one or two Flemish cabinets in your studies. They are unique in their construction and typically set up on tall floor stands. The cabinets are made of ebonized hardwoods with elaborate embroidered or lacquered interior decorations. This type of cabinet comes from Flanders, the area of the Southern Netherlands in the late 16th to 17th centuries~ from cities…

We are going to stick up for “raised” embroidery. Not that it needs sticking up for; it is a very popular and well appreciated form of needlework with many extraordinary people teaching raised, padded, and wire-form embroidery. But here we go… Raised work became very popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and was used on book bindings, mirrors, pictorial embroideries, heraldic clothing or accessories, and most famously caskets. People, animals, flowers, trees, and buildings were all cl