For Historical Embroiderers :
Three Scottish Embroideries, by Helen Bennett
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_107/107_330_332.pdf
"Since 1973 the Museum has purchased three major examples of 16th- and 17th-century
embroidery......"
There's two nice detail pictures of the work in question.
I wish the other plates were clearer - the third one, with the range of stitches, sounds really interesting.
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