Sulgrave Manor

1960

Reference Number:-	Sprake Number:-	Godden Number:-
obk 52	not listed	recorded without number

Brocklehurst-Whiston (BWA) silk picture view of George Washington's ancestoral home - Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire

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

Words:

Woven on silk:-
	B.W.A. 1960	Sulgrave Manor
Printed at bottom of card mount:-
	Woven in Silk	Brocklehurst-Whiston, Macclesfield, 1960
	Sulgrave Manor
	The Home of George Washington's Ancestors
	Northamptonshire		England

Legend printed on inside cover of card mount:-
George Washington, the first President of the United States of America, was a great-grandson of Colonel John Washington who left England to settle in Virginia in 1656. For almost a century before then, Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire, England, had been the home of the Washington family.

Size:

Card mount:
19.5 cm deep by 24.5 cm wide

silk:
7.4 cm high by 15.0 cm wide

Technical Details supplied by Lewis Cowen:

First Sketch:	Mr Cyril Holland
Design Draft:	Mr Wm Hine
Card Cutter:	Mr William Stubbs
Weavers:	Miss Pauline Ridgeway Miss Ethel Garside
Design No:	Z.14010

Comments:

by Lewis Cowen:
In 1960 SULGRAVE MANOR, a house in Northamptonshire became the third woven silk picture to feature a subject not directly connected with Macclesfield. It was probably created as another attempt to break into the American market, and might well have fared only marginally better than the Avro York of 1946, on which similar hopes had been pinned.

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