toot.wales is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
We are the Open Social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi'i bweru gan Mastodon!

Server stats:

595
active users

#embroidered

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

On Mastodon and my #blog, I showed you #embroidered treasures from a special exhibition in our #museum and #culturalHeritage centre: cronenburg.net/treasures/
At the moment when the #exhibition was being cleared away, I was still able to take a few photos. (For more photos look at my blog). #embroidery #bonnets #caps #costumes #Alsace #goldwork #canetille #sequins #beads #glassbeads #rocailles #lacemaking #lace #Klosterarbeiten #TextileArt

An early 14thC #angel, playing a #lute (perhaps the earliest English image of one) on a quizzical dapple grey horse, wonders where his #medieval year has gone - on the gorgeous Steeple Aston cope #embroidered sometime in the 1330s. The image was embroidered in gilded silver thread and multi-coloured silks on a (possibly originally red) cloth of woven silk.
Lots more information about the cope and its #reconstruction at vam.ac.uk/articles/the-steeple.