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Magnificence I: The Cromwell Textile Cloth
A couple of days ago I put the final stitch into a rare piece of work.
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Talking Stitching Cromwell
Last Thursday, I gave a paper at the Material Histories: Objects and Objectives Conference by the Material Histories Group at the University of…
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The dead cut away the ground beneath us
In The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel wrote of the ground under the ground, “no longer visible except in the mind’s eye; and down it goes, to the…
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A letter from Gregory
Stitching the surviving letters sent to Thomas Cromwell is proving fascinating.
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Letters to Cromwell - 1527
Last week, I was in an art shop with my husband, and we were looking at ink.
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Letters to Master Thomas Cromwell
Letters from friends, letters from enemies, letters from servants, letters from clerks.
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The Cardinal’s ring on the Cromwell Cloke
In a recent post, I wrote an introduction to my Cromwell Cloke, with a view to sharing the “becoming” of a piece of my textile art.
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The Thread of Her Tale
The Thread of Her Tale
Reflections on stitching inspired by Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy: a place to talk about the wrong side of the fabric.
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