Close-up details are very important for designing your own patterns, they given you plenty of inspiration. Here are a few to help you on your way. They include areas from sleeves, jackets and stomachers, plus covers for beds, tables and cushions.
1620s Linen embroidered with silk Victoria & Albert Museum,London
1630 Smock Linen embroidered with silk-Victoria & Albert Museum,London
Peapod Dsign on Woman's Jacket Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery,England
Sleeve section Victoria & Albert Museum,London
16th century Falkland Collection Victoria & Albert Museum,London
16th century Stomachers Victoria & Albert Museum,London
16th century Stomachers Victoria & Albert Museum,London
Cover-Victoria & Albert Museum,London
Embroidered bed cover 1778-Henry Ford Museum
16th century Pillow Cover
16th century Cuchion Cover-Victoria & Albert Museum,London
Handkerchief with monogram-Burrell Collection,Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum
Late 16th century Shawl-Castlegate Museum of Textiles,
Nottingham,England
Linen Panel for a Coif-Sir John Carew Collection
Strapwork on a Panel-Metropolitan Museum of Art
Crewel work on cotton and linen twill ground; stem stitch with long, short and coral stitches and French knots
Victoria & Albert Museum,London
16th century Pillow Cover-Royal Ontario Museum
The Shepheard Bush Panel 1570-1600 Linen embroidered with silk
Victoria & Albert Museum,London
