Source: MITCHELL, David (1998). 'Coverpanes: their nature and use in Tudor England,' CIETA Bulletin 75, pp. 81-96.
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 8th July 2016).
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The 'Spanisshe stiche' was a mid-sixteenth century English term for a double running stitch (also known as the Holbein stitch). In Henry VIII’s inventory of 1547, for example, there is a reference to a cloth (either a napkin or coverpane) “wrought with redde Spanisshe stiche mailed betwixt two borders".
Source: MITCHELL, David (1998). 'Coverpanes: their nature and use in Tudor England,' CIETA Bulletin 75, pp. 81-96.
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 8th July 2016).
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