Based upon documentation found in Donald King's "Opus Anglicanum: English Medieval Embroidery". From my research, it appears that heraldic embroidery was occassionally done in either plait or cross stitches in silk thread combined with couched metallic thread. This embrodiery is an attempt to learn how to use plait stitch. There are several different types of plait stitch; the one used may not be the period form. I also attempted to try couching in such a way that a pattern was formed--notice the Laurel leaves on the silver. Materials used: silver passing thread, colored silks, linen ground, silver-tone beads (exact composition unknown though they did tarnish) couched with linen thread.
(Device registered to Master John Chandler)
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