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Elmsley Rose. Baroque Embellishments. Health, love and peace be all here in this place By your leave we shall sing, concerning our King Our King is well-dressed in silks of the bestIn ribbons so rare no king can compare... from a traditional carol.

Baroque Embellishments

Design Decoration Craft. Crewel embroidery. Crewel embroidery, or Crewelwork, is a type of crochet embroidery using wool and a variety of different embroidery stitches to follow a design outline applied to the fabric.

Crewel embroidery

The technique is at least a thousand years old. It was used in the Bayeux Tapestry, in Jacobean embroidery and in the Quaker Tapestry sewn in the 1980s.