ENGLISH NEEDLEWORK

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 13

ENGLISH NEEDLEWORK

A VALUABLE COLLECTION

A collection of needlewoi-It insured for nearly i£ 10,000' w;is sTiown in a Royal residence in London.

The exhibition, "English Needlework: Past and Present," was by permission of Lord Carnegie *iul Lady Maud Carnegie, at lo Portmau Square, i\iv many years the home of the lute Princess Royal and her daughters— Princess Arthur of Connaught and Lady Maud Carnegie. It was in aid of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution, says a London writer.

The high insurance which covered the entire exhibition scarcely indicated the historic and romantic value of even one or two pieces in the antiques section. There was, for instance, an exquisitely embroidered chasuble of preRcfovmation period which for morethan 200 years lay buried in the ground.

The story is that in the middle of Queen Elizabeth's reign a member of a Eoman Catholic family, who had been collecting church vestments and vessels to preserve them from the buried the chasuble, with other objects, in a lead-lined box in Gloucestershire. He left behind a document giving the site and directions for unearthing l.lie treasure, which wrts dug up in the middle of lust century.

Another priceless pioco was n Tudor embroidered'coat which wns worn by one John Carter, one of Ihe group of men who signed the doath warrant oli Charles I.