14th-15thC SILK EMBROIDERED BAG

The textile room, V&A, London

For more background information, patterns and reconstruction examples ; German patterns on Richard Wymarcs excellent website A stitch out of time

For my own unfinished version of the pattern ; yet to be linked

The pattern is known from cardwoven bands of the viking era and kept it's popularity far into the 17th C.

The Göss vestments from the 13thC uses the same pattern quite freely in a wider range of colors. By the 14th-15thC it appears to be a marked preference for a more uniform use of colors.