[Namron] suggestion

[mikea]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:27:38PM -0700, Susan Adkins wrote:
> What is "couched"?  Agnese

It's a technique in which threads are raised above the base fabric. A
wonderful example of it is Sir Winston Churchill's Garter robe, in the
museum in Fulton Missouri. The museum, BTW, is in a church designed by 
Sir Christopher Wren, transplanted from England to Missouri; the 
building is entirely admirable in its own right. 

Google on `couching or "couched work"'. Then Google the images. Drool.

The badges on the Garter robes in 

<http://www.answers.com/topic/mary-soames-baroness-soames>

are couched work. If these are typical Garter badges, much of the 
surface is gold bullion thread; I don't know what the non-visible work
is. 

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