Assisi work is a style of counted embroidery which typically includes bands of cross-stitch or long-armed cross-stitch showing birds, flora, and other such motifs. The most distinctive feature is that the designs are usually formed by the void between the stitches (that is, the white spaces rather than the coloured embroidery). Assisi work was produced in Assisi, Italy towards the end of SCA period and widely exported.
My towel is about 2 feet wide by 4 feet long, with bands just over an inch wide at each end. The bands show birds and trees from a modern cross-stitch pattern which is similar to the period style.
This towel, my first SCA embroidery project, is worked in cross stitch with cotton thread on linen cloth. If I were doing the project again, I would use long-arm cross-stitch and silk thread.