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Opus Anglicanum are fine needlework often done for the Church, primarily by nuns and then by laywomen in workshops. These exquisite and expensive embroidery pieces were often copes but could be other types of church furnishings and vestments. They were usually embroidered on velvet or silk, frequently with gold thread.

One particularly fine example is the The Adoration of the Magi chasuble from c.1325 in red velvet embroidered in gold thread and pearls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It depicts a nativity scene with emphasis on decorative motifs, flowers, animals, birds, beasts, and angels.

Few surviving secular examples exist.

[edit] External links

• Opus Anglicanum: English Work, or How to Paint With a Needle