(1) Most often the handiwork of women in prosperous New England households from about 1720 to 1800, crewel embroidery consists of slackly twisted yams that are stitched onto plain-woven fabrics, usually linen, using a variety of stitches.(2) I have crewel yarn and silk thread, and I'm determined to make something of it.(3) The silk shoes and the crewel panel at the Connecticut Historical Society enlarge the meaning of the bed sheet in the Beinecke.(4) To her, however, there was no distinction between plain linen and high-style crewel .(5) She had been working half-heartedly at the crewel embroidered shawl for some time.
