needing an opinion from the costume geeks....

[glynis_fawr]

Do you think the Munich Psalter picture has embroidery on his garment, or is it woven in. I would like to do some embelishment on my new dress, that isn't gold couching....

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/zgothic/miniatur/1200-250/index.html

Comments

[yagowe]

It looks like paint to me... ;-)

[yagowe]

In all seriousness, though, it looks to me more like something the manuscript artist did to break up areas of solid colour than anything representative of actual ornamentation.

[glynis_fawr]

This is not the answer I wanted!!!!

[realtsunamigirl]

As far as I know, no period loom could get a pattern that was that asymetrical.

I'm putting in with yagowe. I think that it's painted.

[ekatarina]

I'm also in the "artist added it" camp. I think it balances out the white highlighting on the folds.

Katja

[canzonet]

Adding my vote to those above.

Most embroidered applications I've seen from this time period were highly geometrical in nature - not natural or life-like, such as vines. This looks like a painter adding Romanesque vine-work painted embellishment to break up the large blue area.