Jacobean embroidery is a form of crewel embroidery named for its origins in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of the seventeenth century. Crewel embroidery is an embroidery technique which is at least a thousand years old. ... James VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was a King who ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

Jacobean embroidery is characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes worked in a variety of stitches with two-ply wool yarn on linen. A popular motif in Jacobean embroidery is the Tree of Life. The Tree-of-Life is a fictional plant (the ancestor of yams, with similar appearance and taste) in Larry Nivens Known Space universe, for which all Hominids have an in-built genetic craving. ...

Jacobean embroidery was carried by British colonists to Colonial America, where it flourished. The Deerfield embroidery movement of the 1890s revived interest in colonial and Jacobean styles of embroidery. For colonies not among the Thirteen colonies, see European colonization of the Americas or English colonization of the Americas. ...