Gawsworth Hall

1981

Reference Number:-	Sprake Number:-	Godden Number:-
obk 96	not listed	not listed

Brocklehurst-Whiston (BWA) silk picture of the Hanging Gate Inn

The image of this silk was very kindly donated by Mary Brittan, UK.

Words:

Woven at bottom of silk:- Brocklehurst		Woven in silk 1981
Printed at bottom of card mount:-	Gawsworth Hall
Cheshire		England

Legend printed on inside cover of card mount:-
This is the capital house of the ancient Manor of Gawsworth. The hall as it exists today is largely a building dating from the second half of the 15th Century. Here lived Mary Fitton the wayward maid of Gawsworth and possible 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.

Size:

Card mount:
cm deep by cm wide

silk:
11.3cm high by 11.7cm wide

Technical Details supplied by Lewis Cowen:

First Sketch:	Mr William Hine
Design Draft:	Mr William Hine
Card Cutter:	Mr William Stubbs
Weaving:	Mrs Phyllis Graves
Design No:	Z25042

Comments:

by Lewis Cowen:
Between 1979 and 1988 only two (silks) were produced - in 1981 GAWSWORTH HALL and in 1983 CAPESTHORNE HALL. No woven pictures were produced from 1984 to 1988, but five more printed silk pictures were made available for collectors.

Other comments:

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