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Arts feature

English embroidery: the forgotten wonder of the medieval world

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

Think of an art at which the English have excelled and I doubt you would come up with the word ‘embroidery’. As I muttered when my agent asked whether I should like to make a film for BBC4 about the golden age of this forgotten but brilliant native art form: ‘Embroidery? What, like sewing?’ But no, not like sewing.

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Dan Jones presents Fabric of Britain: The Wonder of Embroidery on 2 October at
9 p.m. on BBC4.

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