Embroidery

" 1600-1630: Linen, embroidered with silks, bordered with bobbin lace worked in silver and silver-gilt thread. Handkerchiefs made of plain linen served the same function they do today, but if they were decorated they could also be carried purely as fashionable accessories and given as gifts. Amongst the textiles listed in the inventory taken on Henry VIII's death in 1547 were 15 dozen 'handkerchers garnished with golde and siluer and gold [sic] of all sortes'." Link