The early 17th century England can be defined as the Golden Age of crewelwork. A period when the British sea traders brought embroidery merchandise from India. About that time, local manufacturers were also imitating steel sewing needles. The king at that time was King James I, which is Jacobus in Latin. It is where the name of the well-known embroidery style Jacobean crewelwork was derived. The usual motifs of the Jacobean crewel embroidery were birds, flowers, the tree of life and other nature-inspired scenes. Most of the crewel stitches traditionally used then are still used today. The Jacobean crewel embroidery crossed oceans from England to the colonized American countries. Crewelwork occupied the time of well-to-do women who stitched crewel embroidery designs on skirt petticoats or elaborate designs on canopied beds.