An exciting discovery inside an early 17th Century embroidery!
Some of you will have seen this framed embroidery in Poppies Cottage, until I moved it over to Ebay for sale. I knew that the embroidery was of exquisite quality, and bought it from a sale of the embroidery collection of Lord Iveagh which was so exceptional, that most pieces sold for prices far beyond my reach. Although the 17th Century remains largely a mystery to me, there were several 'clues' that intrigued me! First, the frame. I have little knowledge of the age of antiqu
