 The Anglo @-@ Saxon embroidery style combining split stitch and couching with silk and <unk> in gold or silver @-@ gilt thread of the Durham examples flowered from the 12th to the 14th centuries into a style known to contemporaries as Opus Anglicanum or " English work " . Opus Anglicanum was made for both ecclesiastical and secular use on clothing , hangings , and other textiles . It was usually worked on linen or dark silks , or later , worked as individual motifs on linen and applied to velvet . 
