Textiles

Detail of the tablecloth with circular sewn pattern in the Parlour at Carlyle's House, 24 Cheyne Row, London

Detail of embroidered panel by Joan Lander featuring a design of a rabbit holding a pennant surrounded by stylized flowers, in the Turret Dressing Room at Sunnycroft

Replicas of finds from the Sutton Hoo Saxon burial site - woven floor covering

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Early 19th-century embroidery sampler by Agnes Grange featuring a pious verse by the Rev. John Newton, in the Grey Lady's Chamber at East Riddlesden Hall.

Section of linen coverlet embroidered in coloured silks in a variety of stitches on a background of Italian quilting, at A la Ronde, the home of the Misses Parminter

Replicas of finds from the Sutton Hoo Saxon burial site - close up view of tunic sleeve with tablet weave decoration

Octagonal needlework box with buckles, thread, cotton reels and a thimble in the Parlour at Plas yn Rhiw, Pwllheli, Gwynedd

Close view of a Victorian patchwork quilt covering the bed in Honora's Bedroom at Plas yn Rhiw, Pwllheli, Gwynedd

The Beaconsfield arms embroidered by Hannah de Rothschild, Lady Rosebery, on a silk banner firescreen with a bamboo style frame in the Library at Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

The Exeter carpet, dated EXON 1758, on the Grand Staircase at Petworth House, West Sussex

Detail of the black silk damask robe used by Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Bartolozzi Room at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, home of prime minister Benjamin Disraeli between 1848 and 1881

Red and white embroidered pin cushion in the South Bedroom at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, home of prime minister Benjamin Disraeli between 1848 and 1881

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Close-up of six of the thirty two octagonal canvas-work panels displayed in the Drawing Room Passage

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Crimson velvet panel, sixteenth-century, with initials 'ES' surmounted by a coronet, for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, at Hardwick Hall

Pair of Elizabethan gauntlet mittens at Dunham Massey

Close up view of the firescreen in the Dining room showing the Benthall arms (lion rampant double queued azure ducally crowned gules

Close view of the "IHS" embroidery on the reredos behind the Chapel altar at Dunham Massey, photographed for the Country House Silver book