PORTAL:CLOTHING DYK 4

...that The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul (pictured) was a manuscript translated, scribed, and embroidered for queen Katherine Parr by future queen Elizabeth I when the latter was eleven years old?
...that couching, an embroidery technique in which yarn is laid on top of fabric and held in place with small stitches, is featured in the Bayeux tapestry and on Central Asian suzani rugs?
...that German textile artist Gunta Stölzl was the only female "master" of the Bauhaus?

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