Hanging the Courting Couple Tapestry
3rd November 2015
The beginning of October had us hanging the Courting Couple tapestry back on the walls of the Holly bedroom at Doddington Hall. As with the
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The beginning of October had us hanging the Courting Couple tapestry back on the walls of the Holly bedroom at Doddington Hall. As with the
As we have been working to conserve the set of six tapestries from the Holly bedroom, we have begun to notice differences in the weaving
The tapestry team have been working hard on The Hunter and The Peddler tapestries, these both have cuts in them to allow for two doors
When large areas of the tapestries are missing, there are a number of treatment options available to us. We could re-warp the hole and couch
It’s been nearly five years since the tapestries were removed from the Holly bedroom for conservation and in April we were able to return the
A whole year has passed since we began the project here at the Heritage Skills Centre. We all can’t believe how quickly the time has
When the tapestries were made nearly 400 years ago, all the wools and silk yarns used to weave them would have been dyed with natural
We think it’s about time we explained the conservation stitches that are typically used in tapestry conservation and the stitching we carry out day to
At the start of September, the team travelled to Mechelen in Belgium to join the tapestries from the Yellow bedroom of Doddington Hall at The
July saw the tapestry team back at Doddington Hall, this time to look at the rest of the tapestries from the Holly bedroom that were