I'm so busy with the house, that I haven't got energy left for embroidery (too bad!)
But I did found an interesting paper that I wanted to show you:
Young. B. (1970), Needlework by nuns: a medieval religious embroidery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, February 1970, pp262-277
It's in the Utrecht University Library, and copies are also available via amazon or abebooks.
The paper presents a detailed description of a late 14th century German wallhanging embroidered in silk and linen, for a picture, click here
Young describes the socio-historical context, compares the wallhanging with other contemporary works, explains its iconography and even gives some technical details. I've only had a quick glance at the paper, so I can't give specific details yet.
A detail that suprised me, is that the faces and other details are actually painted on the embroidery! I think that's funny!
Here are some close ups of the journal's cover:

