Crewel

'Crewel': a thin yard usually used for tapestries, embroidery, laces, hosiery, etc. Note: 25.

The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589

I now know a lot more than I would have about Minnesota because I love the Monica Ferris Crewel World books.

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Crewel Lye is much slower then I remember it being, but I like the voice of the main character, Jordan, very much.

Crewel Lye: Soap in My Eye or Bored to Tears? « A Working Title 2007

TICKEL TORCHUr–a noo forrarm of torture–quit Crewel an a liddle Unusual.

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Crewel work of the type of Jacobean, was the outcome of that earlier wool embroidery that even in the zenith of fame of the Ecclesiastical broderers still quietly went on its way.

Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam

The medlar-like fruit is worked in Crewel stitch in bands of brown, stem lighter in shade.

Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam

The colouring and the drawing of this fine old Crewel-work are exquisite (even though the design savours of the grotesque), and Time has dealt very leniently with the dyes.

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

Crewel should not be manufactured with a twist, as it makes the embroidery appear hard and rigid; and the shades of colour do not blend into each other so harmoniously as when they are untwisted.

Handbook of Embroidery L. Higgin 1852

Crewel is suitable for embroidery on all kinds of linen -- on plain or diagonal cloth, serge, flannel, &c.

Handbook of Embroidery L. Higgin 1852

_Crewel_ should be cut into short threads, never more than half the length of the skein.

Handbook of Embroidery L. Higgin 1852