Fine worsted yarn

Usage examples of crewel.

Vivid Brueghels hanging on the walls, Jacobean furniture, Linenfold paneled doors, Crewel drapes.

So they sat with their embroidery, doing a few stitches of crewel or stumpwork, sighing and yawning often with poorly concealed boredom.

She brought a basket of pink and gray crewels with her, for she was crocheting a jacket -- for the cat, probably, judging by the size of it.

Or the oak-fly, the body of which is orange colour and black crewel, with a brown wing.

First for a Mayfly: you may make his body with greenish-coloured crewel, or willowish colour.