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A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall

There were many bedrooms at Beaudesert. In this photograph the bed has a Venetian-patterned silk damask cover and the headboard is covered with a similar type of material. Beaudesert Hall was the ...

A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall

There were many bedrooms at Beaudesert. This panelled room with a stone fireplace is thought to be one of the bedrooms from a group of rooms located above the Long Gallery known as “The Nurseries”. Beaudesert ...

A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall

There were many bedrooms at Beaudesert. In this photograph the bed has a Venetian-patterned silk damask cover, the headboard and hangings are of a similar type of material. Beaudesert Hall was the ...

A Corridor at Beaudesert Hall

Pictured is one of the corridors at Beaudesert Hall. Beaudesert Hall was the mansion of the Pagets, Marquesses of Anglesey. Its core was medieval, with later alterations. James Wyatt and Joseph Potter ...

Bookmark

White card with embroidered text in blue thread. Inscribed: 'I love you dearly. Loves knot once tied who can'. From the Staffordshire County Museum Collection. 167mm x 52mm. Belonged to the Tildesley ...

Cross Stitch Sampler

This pretty sampler of the alphabet and numbers was worked by Sarah Ann White when she was 7 years old.

Cross Stitch Sampler

This sampler decorated with roses and a verse entitled 'The Rose' was worked by Zilpah Osborns.

Cross Stitch Sampler

This sampler is the work of 11 year old Catherine Fisher. The scene depicts a Chinese temple with a Chinese man standing on each side, birds and animals and a verse from Isiah in the Bible at the top ...

Cross Stitch Tapestry

This framed cross stitch tapestry shows a girl and a dog sitting in the garden.

Curtain Department, Bratt and Dyke, Hanley

The Curtain Department on the ground floor of Bratt and Dyke's Department Store, Hanley. Draper Oliver Dyke opened a shop in Hanley in 1890 with the financial support of Northwich draper and entrepreneur ...

Cushion, embroidered

Large Square embroidered cushion. Made by the Leek Embroidery society, floral design with birds Pale beige background, flowers and foliage embroidered in pinks and greens using long and short stitch. ...

Dessert mat, embriodered, Leek

Square panel of embroidery mounted in a square panel of machine made lace. Lace embroidered with criss cross pattern in gold and green silk. Embroidered central panel of blue and white blossom, green ...

Dessert mat, embroidered, Leek

Embroidered dessert mat. Square of embroidery mounted in a square of machine made lace. Lace embroidered with zig zag border of chain stitch in lime and dark green silk. Embroidered central panel of a ...

Embroidered rectangular table runner, Leek

Embroidered panel mounted on ruched pink silk with cream silk backing. Embroidered panel of pink and red stylised floral design and green foliage. Long and short stitch used throughout with gold couching ...

Embroidery Panel

This elaborate panel on a white silk background features peacocks with green velvet plumage decorated with purple, pink, yellow, white and silver thread, bugle beads and sequins. The panel is the work ...

Embroidery Panel, Leek

A pavelon green silk panel worked by the Leek School of Embroidery, with a floral design in beige, pink, yellow, brown and green, and outlined in gold thread.

Embroidery Sample

This fine sampler is the work of the Leek Embroidery Society. The pink flowers with gold thread detailing have been sewn onto a rose pink silk fabric.

Examples of Fabrics

embroidered fabric were brought back from unknown overseas origin.