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Collections > Textiles
A fascinating collection of period carpets, costume, embroidery, fabrics, fans, lace, quilts and bedcovers, one of the largest collections of tapestries in the country and toys including the world's first train set.
Chair back
Wool with silk highlights on canvas, tent and cross stitch. (11 + 12 stitches to the inch). It has been cut down at the top. Size: 65 x 52.5 cm view details
Chair Back
Part of a set of three chair seats and a chair back, wool and silk cross stitch and petit point, angular flowers on dark brown for border, edged with 'S' shaped... view details
Chair Back
Formal leaf pattern. Embroidered on canvas with white linen background. Wools for the rest, lines of formal leaves running diagonally in a check pattern, in three... view details
Chair Seat and Back:
Chair seat and back all wool cross stitch and petit point. The seat is a scene with a bird and a fox by a fruit tree, and the back, with Joseph and Potiphar's wife.... view details
Children's Shoes
Children's shoes in lemon silk with low heel and rosettes. view details
Fashion Plates and Dress Bills
Fashion plates and dress bills belonging to Josephine Bowes. Regrettably, her wardrobe does not survive, though bills in the archives reveal that she spent astonished... view details
Quilt, Framed Wholecloth
Maker unknown Quilt, c.1890 Traditional North of England design. Printed and plain ('old gold') cotton sateen, reverse deep pink cotton. Bordered quilting design with... view details
Strippy Quilt
Made by Mrs. Young of Battersby, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire Strippy Quilt, c.1890 Turkey red and white cotton twill, reverse in Turkey red Cotton. Strip quilting... view details
Quilt, detail of border of embroidered panel
English Detail of border of embroidered panel, early 18th century Linen in a variety of stitches, including drawn fabric, needlepoint fillings and raised stitches... view details