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| Wall of gloves in the gallery at the Fashion Museum, Bath |
After lunch, we had the chance to visit the Fashion Museum in Bath for the rest of the afternoon. The displays are always lovely there as well as the amazing wall of 17th century gloves. You might remember their glove collection - years ago I ran a
Needlework Nibble to raise money to buy them the storage containers to rehouse the Worshipful Company of Glovers collection. They had been in drawers on top of each other and now they are in beautiful individual boxes that protects and displays them better for storage visits. For all who bought that Needlework Nibble - thank you!
The wonderful thing about this collection is the
willingness to allow us to share pictures online, which is not the case at all museums. You may have noticed that I have been careful to show us with objects in the background and not the objects themselves at some museums. Well, now I can show you the actual pieces we saw! So I will be spending a few days on this stop on our tour to let you enjoy it as well.
The first piece to explore is the set of gloves that inspired the glove project itself! This piece has wild fringe of twisted gold thread on the edges.
The piece shows a phoenix rising from the burning nest. The level of detail to the embroidery is quite stunning with combinations of multiple threads in one needle, gold and silk composites and a wide variety of stitches.
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| Fashion Museum, Bath GLO 23342&A, The Spence Collection |
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| Fashion Museum, Bath GLO 23342&A, The Spence Collection |
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| Fashion Museum, Bath GLO 23342&A, The Spence Collection |
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| Fashion Museum, Bath GLO 23342&A, The Spence Collection |
How extraordinarily beautiful! And you are welcome, I bought that NN, in fact, I may have bought more than one. I am so glad you are able to share the photos with us.
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