Starting with insects, the smallest of embroidered motifs and following on with animals and birds, all that is left to look at in detail on my jacket are the 8 flowers, although as one of them is a fruit, the pomegranate, and 2 are more or less fantastical, I ‘m obviously using the term flower […]

This third post on my Elizabethan jacket shows pictures of the embroidered animals and birds. Outstanding embroidresses: Bess of Hardwick and Mary Queen of Scots  As you travel north on the M1, where the road slices through Derbyshire and nudges Nottinghamshire to the east, your eyes are caught by a splendid square built mansion that […]