On a Grand Scale – The Exhibition  

The Guild is please to announce a new Exhibition of pieces from our collection!

The exhibition is entitled ‘On a Grand Scale’ and features a number of the larger items from our collection.

Visitors to the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate last year will already have had the pleasure of viewing many of these larger pieces. From the 1st of February 2025 and through out this year, they can be found, on display, in our Beryl Dean Gallery at Discover Bucks (https://www.discoverbucksmuseum.org/whats-on/embroidery-gallery/).

Among them is the piece shown above – a hanging, made by Winsome Douglas in the mid 20^th Century. This item came to us from the Needlework Development Scheme, and is 145cm wide and 188cm deep. Created using felt applique and surface embroidery, it features an elephant, a sail boat and two central figures in Eastern European-style folk dress with the stitched inscription underneath “King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba”. The hanging is backed with blue felt and has lambrequin edges with tassels.

The exhibition illustrates a wide range of both subjects and techniques. This lovely table runner (another Needlework Development Scheme piece) …

…forms an interesting contrast to this hanging, which depicts life among the Inuit.

Alongside the various hangings, panels and cot covers we are also exhibiting several three dimensional pieces. This casket, made by St Osyth Wood in the mid-1930s, is a delight, with exquisitely embroidered panels on every surface. As well as the decoration in the lid and on the exterior sides, it holds three inner trays, each with their own lid and internal compartments. It took five years to complete!