I hope you will enjoy reading some of the ARTICLES, all based on items I have sold or have for sale. The Leek Embroidery Society produced beautiful work for secular and ecclesiastical commissions. Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher who revived the art of indigo dyeing and hand block printing in the early twentieth century, designed the interiors for the new wing of Girton College, Cambridge in the 1930's. Little known Norwich woven woollens or Stuffs of the eighteenth century is of interest to textile and costume historians and weavers. There are two articles on English embroidery, the first on 17th century Elizabethan and Stuart 'slips' or embroidered flower and animal motifs, for applying to bed curtains, pictures or boxes. The second on late 17th and early18th century crewel wool work bed hangings embroidered with trees of life and large leaves. Kashmir and shawls of Paisley design were the essential female accessory for the late 18th and first half of the 19th century. The Omega Workshops of the post World War 1 years employed many well known artist/designers to produce their modernist designs. Chinese Sleevebands which adorned the cuffs of mandarin's wives robes during the 19th century are varied in subject and beautifully embroidered.
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