selection of available works
needlework and textiles, including historic upholstery

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The gallery specialises in the finest English and European embroidered works from the medieval period onwards. From exquisite professional embroideries commissioned to furnish the greatest houses and palaces to charming embroideries executed by accomplished needle women at home exclusively for their own collections or that of their family.

The gallery has perhaps the most important collection of English and French embroidered seat upholstery for use on historic seat furniture.

Objects include:

  • curtains/draperies
  • fire screens
  • mirrors
  • pictures
  • pillows
  • portieres/wall hangings
  • upholstery

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