Twenty of us gathered for this Guild day out. They fill up quickly as it's a chance to go behind the scenes. We gathered in one of impressive Victorian rooms which still sported a whole tall wall of glass fronted bookcases with elaborately bound volumes preserved inside.
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| Quilted petticoats. The black one was especially fine. One of the organisers was especially interested in these. |
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| Detail of silk patchwork Stars seemed to be a single piece. Perhaps the surrounding diamonds were appliqued to reveal the central shape. |
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| A log cabin quilt including many shirtings, some quite coarse fabric. |
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| Seemingly random hexagons. Detail. |
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| A quilt with plenty of use, |
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| Detail |
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| Wonderful turkey red setting |
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| Taking a close look |
Selected quilts lay ready to view and my group of 10 stayed to examine them more closely.
Then my group with the museum curator went up into a the store in a more modern part of he building. We saw racks of clothes many 20th century worn by Lady Brabourne, also smocks worn by most of the rural populaton and a soldier's jacket from the Crimean war, restored but still stained with blood from his fatal wound.
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| I remember those instruments of discomfort. |
In the afternoon we sat in tables of five to make nifty thread tidies and chat. I still have to do the final step.
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