(Latin: “English work”). Opus anglicanum is fine embroidery on velvet  with silver, silver-gilt and silk thread, embellished with pearls. It was produced for ecclesiastical and secular patrons in medieval England (late 12th to mid-14th c.). Web resource here. Video here.

The Chichester-Constable Chasuble (detail). Silver and silver-gilt thread and colored silks with pearls on velvet. Ca. 1330–1350. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.