Godiva

 

Words:

{woven on silk:}

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

{circle with word:}        Godiva    T	he woman of a thousand summers back , wife to that grim Earl, who ruled
I	n Coventry: for when he laid a tax
U	pon his town, she told him of their tears,
H	e answered, Ride you naked thro' the town
A	nd I repeal it.
T	hen rode she forth, clothed on with chastity,
T	hen rode she back, clothed on with chastity.
	then she gained
H	er bower; whence reissuing robed + crowned
T	o meet her Lord, she took the tax away,
A	nd built herself an everlasting name.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Ratliff & Son Manufacturers Coventry
 

Of silk : 35.0cm high by 19.5cm wide
Of card mount: cm high by cm wide

signed: " John Ratliff & Son Manufacturers Coventry " woven on the front.
 
The poem is an extract of the Tennyson poem, written in 1840. The silk panel above though is thought to have been made for the International Exhibition of 1862.

 

close up of John Ratliff woven name at foot of silk panel