More about Bess of Hardwick’s tapestries

Hardwick Hall seems to have taken over a corner of the blog. Having posted about the restoration of the Long Gallery tapestries in Restoring Bess of Hardwick’s tapestries and then about the conservation of the adjacent Old Hall in More restoration work at Hardwick Hall I now see that Apollo has a more detailed study of the tapestries and their conservation.

The illustrated article gives much more detail than the original BBC account about the tapestries, their design and their manufacture as well as their position within Elizabethan culture and it can be seen at A massive success at Hardwick Hall