Definition of Orphrey. Meaning of Orphrey. Synonyms of Orphrey

- An orphrey, also spelt orfrey or orfray, is a form of often highly detailed embroidery, in which typically simple materials are made into complex patterns...
- on the edge of sleeves to more extravagant designs made on bands called orphrey—commonly used by the aristocracy and church. Linen was used for shirts...
- thread Or nué Western Europe Couching Fabric, metallic thread, silk thread Orphrey Needlepoint Ancient Egypt Cross stitch, tent stitch, brick stitch Linen...
- the wrists, and decorated with relatively simple symbols or bands and orphreys. By comparison, "fiddleback" vestments were often extremely heavily embroidered...
- wood-carvings and fragments of chancel screens, metal artifacts, and orphrey, the largest category being the icons, some of which bear the clear hallmarks...
- embroidery pieces were often made as vestments, such as copes, chasubles and orphreys, or else as antependia, shrine covers or other church furnishings. Secular...
- fur collar) to Hunstanton Church, to make a cope with a cloth of gold orphrey embroidered with his and "Dame Kateryne's" heraldry. The tomb and br****...
- Embellishment is commonly by means of decorative bands of material called orphreys, embroidery (sometimes in gold or silver thread, or making use of pearls...
- in 1246, and in 1247 three silver chalices, a censer, and quantities of orphrey, samite and other precious cloths for making chasubles and dalmatics for...
- the lady chapel Venerable Bede by Harry Clarke 15th century, medieval orphrey on a chasuble in active use at St. Cuthbert's. Durham University Dominican...