Stunning Crewelwork embroidery kits by The Coleshill Collectionand Elsa Williams. These designs use a wonderful variety of crewel embroidery stitches in beautiful shades. All kits contain the fabric printed with the design outline, crewel wools, needle, clear sitch diagrams and full instructions.
Crewel Embroidery, or Crewelwork, is a decorative form of surface embroidery using wool and a variety of different embroidery stitches to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. The technique is at least a thousand years old. It was used in the Bayeux Tapestry, in Jacobean embroidery and in the Quaker tapestry.