Patterns, stitches, extant samples. I currently have the links organized by time period and then a general information section. It’s likely in the future I may separate out each Century for it’s own post and then organize the links by region. Right now I just keep getting distracted by all of the pretty pictures and how one link leads to another link to another link.
What is your favourite? And how would you like to see this organized?
Ancient
Phrygian Embroidery (Turkey) – Possibly the first true embroidery
Why Ancient Silk Is Still Gold: Issues in Chinese Textile History
Felt Carpet of the Hunnu – 3rd-1st Century BCE
Ancient Chinese Silk Unraveled in Xinjiang
Ancient Russian Ecclesiastical Embroideries
940 AD Egyptian Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered fragment
3rd-4th Century Linen, wool; tapestry weave, looped embroidery Possibly Egypt
Heavy Metal Embroidery – Iron Age
Textile Research Center – Ancient Egyptian Stitches
EdgarOwen.com – Early Islamic Art and Artifacts
10th Century
Vassar.edu – Viking embroidery Stitches and Motifs
The textile grave finds from the graves in the cathedral of Worms
11th Century
Scribbling in the Margins – 11th Century Embroidery
Cover from the St Wenceslas Shrine
11th and 12th Century Collars – Sudzal Grave Find
12th Century
12th Century Embroidered Mantle – Extant pieces and how to make your own
Maniacal Medievalist – 12th Century
Raclaire’s Embroidery and Needlework – This takes you to 12th Century but there is more to see on the whole blog
Sicilian Embroidery of the 12th Century
Historical Needlework Resources – Blue Tunicella or Dalmatic
Battle of Legnano 1176 – clothing
13th Century
China Silk Museum – Embroidered Slippers Song Dynasty
Cleveland Museum of Art – Lampas with lion strangler
Mitra from Seligenthal Monastery Embroidery in gold lahn and silk on white silk
Tenjukoku Shucho 13th Century reproductions of older Japanese embroidery
14th Century
History of Embroidery – 14th Century English
Victoria and Albert museum – Opus Anglicanum
Historical Needlework resources – 14th Century
Ornament-i-stil – 14th Century Saxos
North Italian – silk and metal thread
Karlov’s Day Forum – 14th Century Embroidery thread
Altar Cloth or Podea – Byzantine
French Pouch- silk and metal thread on canvas
15th Century
15th Century Nepal Silk embroidery on polished cotton
V&A Museum – An Introduction to English Embroidery (14th, 15th and 16th Century examples)
16th Century
Elizabethan Costume – 16th Century Embroidery Resources
“Slips” Elizabethan and Stuart Embroidery
English Embroidery of the Late Tudor and Stuart Eras
Flowers of the Needle – 16th Century embroidery
Textile Research Center – Assisi Embroidery
Robe of the Palatine Countess Dorothea Sabina
The death of St. Paul – Tapestry
1600 Spanish Embroidered Skirt Front extant piece
General or not time period specific
Needlework Tips and Techniques – History of Embroidery
Historical Needlework Resources – Searchable by Period
cearashionnach.files.wordpress.com – Pre 17th century metal work embroidery
Jane Zimmerman – English Medieval Embroidery
Jane Stockton – 5 Period Embroidery Stitches
Embroidery: Sources of design, past and present
The Worshipful Company of Broderers – Embroidery Guild
Russia IC – Torzhok Gold Embroidery
Recreated Clothing with Sources Listed
Su Embroidery – History of Hungarian Embroidery
Persian Embroidery – A Study in Miniatures Mostly pre 17th Century
Tiraz: Inscribed Textiles from the Early Islamic Period until the 14th Century
Textile Research Center – Hungarian Embroidery
Costume and Embroidery of Macedonia
fibre2fashion – History of Embroidery
China Online Museum – Embroidery
Sarah’s Hand Embroidery Tutorials – Pattern Darning
Xenia's Medieval Miscellany 
