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Sep 22 • Bea Stitches
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Her Portrait broods from the wall
In Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy, we are given a seat in the room to watch Hans Holbein working on his portraits.
Aug 21 • Bea Stitches
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Magnificence I: The Cromwell Textile Cloth
A couple of days ago I put the final stitch into a rare piece of work.
Jun 13 • Bea Stitches
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Talking Stitching Cromwell
Last Thursday, I gave a paper at the Material Histories: Objects and Objectives Conference by the Material Histories Group at the University of…
May 18 • Bea Stitches
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The dead cut away the ground beneath us
In The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel wrote of the ground under the ground, “no longer visible except in the mind’s eye; and down it goes, to the…
Apr 20 • Bea Stitches
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A letter from Gregory
Stitching the surviving letters sent to Thomas Cromwell is proving fascinating.
Mar 24 • Bea Stitches
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Letters to Cromwell - 1527
Last week, I was in an art shop with my husband, and we were looking at ink.
Mar 10 • Bea Stitches
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Letters to Master Thomas Cromwell
Letters from friends, letters from enemies, letters from servants, letters from clerks.
Feb 11 • Bea Stitches
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