 Embroidery for household furnishings during the Elizabethan era was often worked using silk and wool on canvas or linen canvas.Garment embroidery more often used silk or silk and silver threads.Many different stitches were used for the embroidery, including "back, basket, braid, pleated braid, brick, buttonhole, chain, coral, cross, long-armed cross, French knot, herringbone, link, long and short, running, double running, satin, seed, split, stem, tent as well as laid work and couching."