Thank you, Louise for posting about the Bacton Altar Cloth: Very interesting! The piece has been much mended and well taken care of, presumably because it is such a special piece. In Janet Arnold's book from 1988, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, there are a couple illustrations in the Stowe Inventory part of Chapter IX (386, 387 on p.293) of the same piece of embroidery. The text says: A slip of vine, caterpillars, insects and birds, two details from a large panel of white ribbed silk with an additional weft of silver threads, embroidered with polychrome silks, said to have belonged to Blanche Parry, c. 1590-1600. The Church of St Faith, Bacton.
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