- An
orphrey, also
spelt orfrey or orfray, is a form of
often highly detailed embroidery, in
which typically simple materials are made into
complex patterns...
- on the edge of
sleeves to more
extravagant designs made on
bands called orphrey—commonly used by the
aristocracy and church.
Linen was used for shirts...
-
thread Or nué
Western Europe Couching Fabric,
metallic thread, silk
thread Orphrey Needlepoint Ancient Egypt Cross stitch, tent stitch,
brick stitch Linen...
- the wrists, and
decorated with
relatively simple symbols or
bands and
orphreys. By comparison, "fiddleback"
vestments were
often extremely heavily embroidered...
- wood-carvings and
fragments of
chancel screens,
metal artifacts, and
orphrey, the
largest category being the icons, some of
which bear the
clear hallmarks...
-
Embellishment is
commonly by
means of
decorative bands of
material called orphreys,
embroidery (sometimes in gold or
silver thread, or
making use of pearls...
-
embroidery pieces were
often made as vestments, such as copes,
chasubles and
orphreys, or else as antependia,
shrine covers or
other church furnishings. Secular...
- fur collar) to
Hunstanton Church, to make a cope with a
cloth of gold
orphrey embroidered with his and "Dame Kateryne's" heraldry. The tomb and br****...
- in 1246, and in 1247
three silver chalices, a censer, and
quantities of
orphrey,
samite and
other precious cloths for
making chasubles and
dalmatics for...
-
fimbriated Azure all
within a
bordure Purpure; Crest: A
mitre Argent the
orphreys semé of
maple leaves Gules; The
mitre corresponds to the name of the school...
