Mabel_of_Bury_St._Edmunds
Mabel of Bury St. Edmunds
British artist
Mabel of Bury St. Edmunds (13th-century) was an English embroiderer of immense skill.[1]
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Mabel was from Bury St. Edmunds.[1] She frequently appeared in the royal records of Henry III as a favoured artisan.[1]
Between the years 1239 and 1245 she appeared in the King’s writs twenty four times.[1] According to Rozsika Parker, Mabel was the last majorly acknowledged woman embroider in England during the period of the middle ages: after this time, medieval histories of embroidery recorded mainly the names of male merchants (regardless of who were the actual artisans in towns and villages).[2]