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Embroidery Kits Featuring Flowers
Embroidery Kits Featuring Flowers
Jacobean Sampler Kit
Begin your embroidery journey with the Jacobean Sampler Beginner Kit. Created with the absolute beginner in mind, this design features all the core techniques needed for Crewel Work. Ideal for beginners looking to explore traditional embroidery techniques.
Jacobean Fantasy Kit
One of our most popular designs, the Jacobean Fantasy recreates a section of a larger hanging, based on a popular early-20th Century design.
Featuring a pleasing array of oversized motifs in the Jacobean style.
Rowan Tree Kit
Celebrate Arts & Crafts elegance with the Rowan Tree Kit. This design features swirling foliage with vibrant red rowan berries, stitched in a wonderful and interesting combination of crewel techniques. Inspired by the plasterwork friezes at Blackwell House in the Lake District, this design is a celebration of the Arts...
Tumbling Feathers Kit
Capture the elegance of nature with our Tumbling Feathers Kit. This design beautifully showcases cascading feathers in intricate detail, offering a serene and sophisticated project for embroidery enthusiasts. Perfect for adding a touch of grace to your living space.
Tree of Life Kit
Delve into timeless symbolism with the Tree of Life Kit. This intricate design features a beautifully detailed tree, representing growth and connection.
Perfect for those seeking a meaningful project that combines artistry with profound symbolism.
Lady Anne's Flowers Kit
The Lady Anne's Flowers is one of our all-time favourite designs. Replicated from a 17th Century pillowe in our own historic crewel work collection, this design offers a window to a time when embroidery experienced a surge in popularity in Britain. Rich in colour and extravagantly stitched, this design represents...
The Glamis Scottish Play Kit
Find your embroidery flair with the Scottish Play Crewel Work Kit. This unusual design replicates a 17th Century pillowe housed in the crypt at Glamis Castle in Fife, Scotland.
Featuring extravagantly oversized floral motifs, the original embroidery was likely repurposed from a set of Jacobean Bed hangings.
Spring Iris Kit
Spring Iris is a perfect introduction to the joys of classic crewel stitches, especially in Long and Short Stitch, for building your skill and confidence in this creative technique. In this design, the fine wool embroidery threads encourage you to blend gently changing blues as you work long, elegant stitches...
Glamis Crown, Rose & Thistle Kit
From the HRH The Queen Mother's childhood home, the Glamis Crown, Rose & Thistle replicates a delicate, symmetrical design stitched by her mother, Cecilia Countess of Strathmore.
Celebrating the union between England and Scotland, the design features an intertwined Rose and Thistle and finally the letter 'S' for Strathmore.
Jacobean Hunt Kit
Our best-selling advanced design, the Jacobean Hunt is an absolute masterclass in 17th Century embroidery.
Sink your needle into an extravagant array of stitches as you complete this joyful hunting scene.
Bird on a Bough Kit
Advance your embroidery technique with the Bird on a Bough Kit. This classic design captures a serene bird perched on a vibrant flower, surrounded by delicate foliage. Perfect for those who enjoy densely stitched Crewel Work in the Jacobean style. During our research we have studied this same late 17th...
The Restoration Pillowe Kit
Revel in the historical elegance of The Restoration Pillowe Kit. This design is replicated from an extraordinary set of 17th Century Pillowes, which Phillipa has recreated in the original Jacobean colours. A substantial embroidery, this design offers a full-fat crewel experience. Design size: 39.5 x 44.5 cm (15½ x 17½ in)Linen...
Ophelia's Fox Kit
Enjoy the best of our Aesop's Mirror Frame with our Ophelia's Fox Kit. This charming design features a swift fox running amidst vibrant flora.
Stitched in a range of core techniques this design in particular offers a chance to practice contoured Long & Short Stitch.
The Muncaster Bed Hanging Kit
Pure crewel luxury, the Muncaster Bed Hanging is one of the most ambitious designs in our range. Replicating the jewel in the crown of the Muncaster Castle Textile Collection, this design features an incredible array of classic Jacobean motifs in a rich and vibrant colour pallet. Each sale of this...
A Hunting We Will Go Kit
Embark on a stitching adventure with A Hunting We Will Go Kit. This substantial design, featuring a lively hunting scene is the perfect introduction to large format designs. With plenty of stitching over a wide area, this design will have you hooked on Crewel Work in no time. Making use...
Elizabethan Scrolls Kit
Take a deep dive into 17th Century embroidery with the Elizabethan Scrolls Kit. This design features intricate scrollwork and floral motifs, a classic Elizabethan design device, offering a sophisticated project with an abundance of embroidery techniques to enjoy. Stitched in a colourful array of Appletons Wools, this design is quick...
Elizabethan Iris Kit
Embrace floral beauty with the Elizabethan Iris Kit. This exquisite design showcases the delicate elegance of irises in a naturalistic, colour palette. One of Phillipa's very first designs, this kit offers a masterclass in Long & Short Stitch and Crewel Stem Stitch in changing directions. Ideal for the experienced embroiderer,...
Dunollie Rose & Honeysuckle Kit
Celebrate floral artistry with the Dunollie Rose & Honeysuckle Kit. Recreated by embroidery artist Deborah Wilding from an incredible set of 18th Century embroidered fragments belonging to MacDougall of Dunollie Preservation Trust at Dunollie Castle near Oban, this design features intricate roses and honeysuckle in a classical Elizabethan roundel motif....
