Good thing this is a blog and not a speech, so here's a little crewel background. The technique is at least 1000 years old (at least that's what wikipedia tells me.) It's an embroidery art form using a wool thread... However they do it, I love the look.
This all red crewel fabric is an option for the multi-color-phobics. From Pigtown Blog
This beautiful tree of life motif from 1915 looks a lot like Etsy fabrics and prints that are sold these days... From needled.
DAR doesn't stand for Daughters of the Revolution - it was the initials of the woman who created this.Here's some modern crewel work, also from needled.
Image 1 is from the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Images 2 and 3 are the work of needled blogger, after designs by Kathryn Shaughnessy in her book "The New Crewel."
Here's another beautiful fabric I have in my secret stash... These will become pillows (after the Josef Frank ones are completed)...
It's a crewel crewel world we live in.
