Part 2 Following the wonderful response by visitors to our small Jane Austen project for the Passionate Women exhibition, we were asked by Whitchurch Silk Mill to create a second set of embroidered stamp pieces. These would form part of a display to launch their beautiful Jane Austen ribbons woven on site. Heritage silk weavingContinue reading “Jane Austen Stamps”
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No. 17 Bess of Hardwick
by Sarah Maddison My second ‘Passionate Woman’ for the exhibition is the amazing Elizabeth Shrewsbury, perhaps better known as Bess of Hardwick. She was a most remarkable women who became the richest woman in England during the Tudor reign. There is no doubt that she married well – four times in all – but herContinue reading “No. 17 Bess of Hardwick”
The Alchemist's Needle 