- patterns.
Orphreys are
broad bands used on priests' albs and knights' robes. In 1182 and 1183
Henry II of
England spent lavishly on
orphreys. The word...
- the wrists, and
decorated with
relatively simple symbols or
bands and
orphreys. By comparison, "fiddleback"
vestments were
often extremely heavily embroidered...
-
thread Or nué
Western Europe Couching Fabric,
metallic thread, silk
thread Orphrey Needlepoint Ancient Egypt Cross stitch, tent stitch,
brick stitch Linen...
- 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...
-
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...
- late
examples of Opus Anglicanum. The
vestments are
composed of
medieval orphreys,
mounted on a
modern cope and two
chasubles which came from the medieval...
- head a thistle;
their coat was of sky-blue damask, with gold
embroidered orphreys representing the collar,
lined with red satin. The
Grand Collar of the...
-
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...
- 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****...
