Synopsis
Elaborate stitching and needlework in colourful threads in the parchment of medieval manuscripts is a widely neglected phenomenon in manuscript studies. The three papers provide a review of materiality and origin of this needlework technique as well as a summary of the observed techniques, introducing a terminology for future cataloguing work. In addition to previously published examples of highly developed needlework in Swiss and Suabian monasteries, a survey of monastic libraries in Austria gave evidence that elaborate parchment stitching was a more widespread practice.

