Gold embroidery is a type of embroidery that uses gold threads (or to a lesser extent, silver), and it is usually done on cloth, velvet or silk.

On a taffeta lined with strong canvas the pattern is drawn. The fabric to be embroidered is woven and the entire surface of the pattern is covered with gold or thick silver thread, passed and secured by the two ends. To embroid in this way, the artisan needs to make fillings to enhance them by using yellow gold card or twist threads of the same color.

The main characteristic of this kind of embroidery is that it never crosses the fabric, remaining spread on its surface with small stitches of yellow cotton threads, previously waxed to lend it hardness.

Because of the Crusades in the thirteenth century, shields and other cavalry motifs began to be embroidered. Other embroidery in gold in other religious ornaments, such as chasubles and mantles, comes to be applied since the seventeenth century. This art decreased notably at the end of the eighteenth century, being largely replaced by sewing machine in the nineteenth century.