The Maaseik embroideries
Mildred Budny|Dominic Tweddle
Among the relics in treasury of church St Catherine at Maaseik Limburg, Belgium, there are some luxurious embroideries which form part so-called casula (probably ‘chasuble’) Sts Harlindis and Relindis (pls. I–VI). It was preserved throughout Middle Ages abbey Aldeneik (which these sister-saints founded early eighth century) moved to nearby 1571. Although traditionally regarded as handiwork themselves, cannot date from their time, they must have been made Anglo-Saxon England. Indeed, represent earliest surviving examples highly prized English art embroidery became famous later opus anglicanum .
Anglo-Saxon England