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Historical Beadwork Illuminated: Medieval European Beadwork Research by Jen Funk Segrest
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14th Century: Cheb Antependium
17th Century: wire beaded floral basket
17th Century: beaded basket
17th Century: beaded Sweetbag, circa 1630
17th Century: beadworked purse circa 1620-30
17th Century: “REMEMBER THE PORE 1630” sweetbag
17th Century: “REMEMBER THE POOR” sweetbag
17th Century: 1600? sweetbag
17th Century: “GOD INCREZ MY STOORE 1636” sweetbag
17th Century: “GIFT OF A FREND 1625” sweetbag
17th Century: “THE GIFT OF A FREND 1628” sweetbag
17th Century: “OEREIOPCEI 1621” sweetbag
17th Century: “REMEMBER THE PORE 1630” sweetbag
17th: “REMEMBER THE POORE 1630” sweetbag
17th Century: “REMEMBER THE POOR 1627” sweetbag
17th Century: “TH GUIFT OF A FRIEND 1623” sweetbag
17th Century: Beaded Sweetbag, 1620-1660
17th Century: “REMEMBER THE POORE” Sweetbag, circa 1630
17th Century: Rectangular Beadwork Mirror
17th Century: Beaded panel, 1671
17th Century: Beaded basket, 1671
17th Century: “I PRAY GOD TO BE MY GUIDE 1638” Sweetbag
17th Century: Beadwork basket, mid-century
17th: Century: Beadwork box
17th Century: Beadwork picture, mid-17th
16th Century: Charles II beadwork basket, circa 1660
17th Century: Charles II beadwork box, circa 1660
17th Century: Beadwork box, 1660
17th Century: Beadwork picture, 1660
16th Century: Beadwork basket, 1664
17th Century: “REMEMBER THE POOR 1631” sweetbag
17th Century/ English beaded wire basket with animals
17th Century: “AN KILLAM PURS 1627” sweetbag
14th Century: Golden Mass Chausable, 1315
13th Century: German Panels
17th Century: Textile panel with beadwork, 1661
17th Century: “SI DEUS NOBISCUM QUIS CONTRA NOS”
17th Century: “THE GIFT OF A FRIEND 1631” sweetbag
16th Century: portrait reproduction of Vlad Dracula
17th Century: “GIFT OF A FREND 1632” sweetbag
13th Century: mantel
15th Century: linen and silk with brakteats, likely a stole end?
14th Century: border with brakteats
15th Century: altar border with seed beads and brakteats
17th Century: Omophorion of Patriarch Hadrian. 1691
14th Century?: border with bratkeats
15th Century: mitre
15th Century: mitre
14th Century: Borders with brakteats and plaques
15th Century: mitre
15th Century: mitre
14th Century: Christ child cloak
14th Century: Christ child cloak
14th Century: Christ child cloak
14th Century: brakteats
14th Century: Christ child cloak
14th Century: Crist child cloak
12th Century: brakteat
14th Century: Marienmantelchen
14th Century: silk brakteats hanging
15th Century: Sarnan Child with Bezants/Brakteats
17th Century: pastoral panel
17th Century: garden beadwork picture 1670
17th Century: beaded stumpwork panel
17th Century: beadwork picture
17th Century: beadwork floral picture 1653
17th Century: beadwork on silk picture
17th Century: beadwork picture 1657
17th Century: beadwork bag 1690
17th Ventury: footed beaded box
17th Century: beadwork box 1670
17th Century: beadwork box 1680
17th Century: beaded casket 1680
12th Century: So-called bag of King Stephen of Hungary
14th Century: stole
11th Century: reliquary cross
17th Century: beaded prayer bookcover
17th Century: basket 1660
17th Century: basket 1659
17th Century: basket 1660
17th Century : basket 1660
17th Century: basket 1670
17th Century: basket 1662
17th Century: waxblossed reliquary figures
17th Century: dressing mirror, 1670
17th Century: Gloves 1620s
17th Century: mirror
13th Century: possible stole end
13th Century: Stole
17th Century: Basket, 1650-1700
17th Century: Fork, 1650-1800
17th Century: “I PRAY GOD TO B MY GUIDE 1634” sweetbag
17th Century: waistcoat
16th Century: Portrait of Anne of Cleves
18th Century: Beaded bag
16th Century: Portrait of a lady, 1510
13th Century: Ciborium/Ziborium (Host Box)
13th Century: Cap, belt, cote, mantle, surcote and other fragments of Fernando de la Certa
12th Century: Roger II Coronation Mantle
13th Century: Fredrick II Gloves
15th Century: The Linköping Mitre
17th Century: Purple velvet purse
15th Century: Crib of the Infant Jesus
14th Century: Mitre of St. Isidoro
17th Century: Beaded bellows
18th Cetury: Beaded panel
17th Century: beaded silk purse
17th Century: Beadwoven Panel (1657)
13th Century: Halberstadt Antependium
13th Century: Halberstadt Antependium
17th Century: Drawstring Bag, 1610-1650
17th Century: Portrait of a young woman from a Gdańsk patrician family, around 1625-35
17th Century: Spangled ruff in Portraits of Doña Ana de Velasco y Girón
17th Century: Portrait of Krystyna Lubomirska, after 1603
17th Century: Portrait of a lady with an elaborate jewelled headdress
17th Century: Hungarian wedding dress
16th Century: Ventian purse
17th Century: purple velvet pouch
17th Century: Game Bag
17th Century: “IN HOP ME HART DOTH REST” sweetbag 1625-1650
17th Century: 1662 Mirror
17th Century: 1659 Basket
17th Century: “HERE IT IS HIT OR MISS 1628” sweetbag
17th Century: Beaded Casket
16th C Pearled Panels
16th Century: Portrait of Hedwig Jagiello
16th Century: Bostocke Sampler
16th Century: Portraits of sisters, and family.
16th Century: Portraits of Susanna of Bavaria
16th Century: Portraits of Sophie of Mecklenburg
16th Century: Portrait 1511
16th Century: Portraits of Anne of Denmark
16th Century: Portraits of Barbara Radziwill
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Portrait Wilhelm IV of Bavaria and his wife Jacoba of Baden, 1525
16th Century: Portrait 1545
16th Century: Portrait 1518
16th Century: Portrait 1513
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Portrait of Saxon Princesses
16th Century: Portrait 1530
16th Century: Portrait 1528
16th Century: Portrait 1541
17th Century: “HEARE ET IS HIT OR MISS”, first half 16th
16th Century: Beaded Portrait
16th Century: Russian Mitre
16th Century: Beaded Book
16th Century: German-Saxon Portrait
16th Century: Pearled Panel
16th Century: The Annunciation
14th Century: Sudarium with Spangles
16th: Drawstring Bag
15th Century: O’Dea Mitre
15th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Painting
14th Century: Christ child cloak
16th Century: Portrait
17th Century: Flinderhaube
15th Century: Portrait
15th Century: Mariazell Chausable
15th Century: Mantle of the Order of the Golden Fleece
15th Century: Halberstadt mitre with four saints
15th Century: Portrait after 1451
15th Century: Portrait 1460
15th Century: Portrait 1530
15th Century: Portrait 1515
15th Century: Portrait
15th Century: Portrait
15th Century: Portrait
15th Century: Portrait
13th Century: Host Box
15th Century: Kloster Ebstorf Panels
15th Century: Montecassino mitre
15th Century: Minden Mitre
15th Century: Kreuzlingen Mitre
14th Century: Chausable Edging
17th Century: Beadwork basket, c. 1675
12th Century: Crown of Constance of Aragon
14th Century Stole (detail)
16th Century: Russian Mitre
11th Century: Chalice Base
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Portrait
16th Century: Geweihter Hut (Hat)
17th Century: Reliquary Crown of St Walburga
16th Century: Portrait
17th Century: Cockatrice Jewelry box
14th Century: Cope
15th Century: Coral Chausable
14th Century: Nola Mitre
14th Century: Amalfi Mitre
14th Century: San Lorenzo Mitre
14th Century: Reliquary Bag
14th Century: Marienwerder Cope
14th Century: Altar Edging
14th Century: Marienwerder Antependium
13th Century: Cap of Alfonso X
12th Century: Alb of William II of Sicily, 1153-1189
13th Century: Reliquary hanging
13th Century: Halberstadt Mitre
14th Century: Sudarium
13th Century: Square Reliquary Box
15th Century: Lamb Of God
13th Century: Shoes of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
13th Century: Orphrey, 1220-1224
12th Century: Pearled Cushion
12th Century Byzantine pearled decorative circle
11th Century: Reliquary Bag with plaques and pearls
12th Century: Roger II Dalmatic
