Panel
A small white cotton panel with two rows of floral motifs and broderie anglais.
Panel
A panel of fine white net, encrusted with seed pearls and large pearls.
Population explosion
This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...
Population Explosion - detail
This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...
Sampler
This sampler was embroidered by Agnes Robertson when she was ten years old. The sampler features green, blue and red embroidery of the alphabet, trees, flowers, birds and a house.
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire
The Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire is in the collection of the Warwickshire Museum Service. It measures 5.1 x 3.9 metres and is usually on display at the Market Hall Museum in Warwick.
It is ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire
The Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire is in the collection of the Warwickshire Museum Service. It measures 5.1 x 3.9 metres and is usually on display at the Market Hall Museum in Warwick.
It is ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Barcheston
This detail of the Sheldon Tapestry shows the area around Barcheston. Brailes, one of the Sheldon's other estates, is also shown. Notice the post fencing round the park at 'Compton'. This is now known ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Description
This is a detail of the description panel.
Transcript in original spelling:
Warwikshear so namid as wel by the Saxons as of us at this
daye it is devided in two parts by the river avon ronninge
through ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Feldon and Arden
As described in the original description panel, Warwickshire is divided in to two distinct areas by the River Avon. The northern part (on the left) is known as the Arden. It was far more heavily wooded ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Warwick
This detail shows Warwick and the surrounding villages.
In the town can be seen St Mary's church as it was before the Fire of Warwick in 1694, when it was badly damaged. The south front of the castle ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Weston
On the left (north) of this detail is the house of Weston, (just above the windmill at Wolford). It was in this house, built by Ralph Sheldon, that the tapestries were originally made to hang.
Shuttle
A wooden shuttle with a moving roller inside. There is purple thread wound onto the roller, this thread is known as quill and was used in weaving.
Shuttle
A small bone shuttle with a fine cord wound inside it.
South Farm, parlour.
Mary Ann was born at South Farm, Arbury Hall estate on 22nd November 1819 the family moved four or five months later to Griff House on the outskirts of the Arbury estate. Her father Robert Evans was ...
Square patchwork cushion
This is one of three square patchwork cushions for an early 19th-century beechwood settle with a spindle galleried back and sides, shaped arm supports, a caned seat and square legs. It has a red and white ...
Square patchwork cushion
This is one of three square patchwork cushions for an early 19th-century beechwood settle with a spindle galleried back and sides, shaped arm supports, a caned seat and square legs. It has a red and white ...
Square patchwork cushion
This is one of three square patchwork cushions for an early 19th-century beechwood settle with a spindle galleried back and sides, shaped arm supports, a caned seat and square legs. It has a red and white ...