The Purpose

{Decorative Image of Pansy Slip} "The New Elizabethan Embroideries”, a unique and exciting project, was started at Sulgrave Manor in 1995 to celebrate the coming Millennium. It is hoped that the project will be completed by 2003, the year that heralds a half century of the new Elizabethan age and the 400th Anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth I. So the intention is that Sulgrave's embroideries will tie together our two Queen Elizabeths, and bind the beautiful Elizabethan Manor House to the twenty first century.

{Decorative Image of Beetle Slip} The scheme is to recreate the splendours of the sixteenth century in the Great bed chamber of the Manor with the refurbishment of the hangings for the fine carved oak four poster bed as well as curtains for the mullioned windows. The present hangings, which are not contemporary with the Bed Chamber, are seriously degraded and not worthy of further conservation.

The New Elizabethan Embroideries will be an inheritance beyond value for future generations, and a priceless reflection of the skills of today acknowledging the importance of the past.

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