Do you find it gets dark too quickly in winter? Find the solution with a space age mirror from 1967
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1617789423168458752
Currently reading
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of
the Feminine, by Rozsika Parker published in 1984. it examines how embroidery, an art performed originally by both sexes was crafted into and formed notions of femininity and how it was also shaped by women who enabled the art to present aspects of their
identity
It argues that Victorians cultivated the myth that embroidery was performed by isolated nuns, whereas in fact women did participate in
workrooms and there were examples of professional embroiderers running their own workshops
today
Embroidery became separated from other arts and associated with the domestic and feminine and thus undervalued
A skill for ladies
Mary Queen of Scots practised it extensively
Marvelous examples from the collections of the V&A some of the symbols also showed her claims against Elizabeth I . they include images associated with her fertility
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/prison-embroideries-mary-queen-of-scots
a great cat symbol from the Royal collection which may have hidden meanings!
https://www.rct.uk/collection/28224/embroidered-panel
Best wishes
Heather Dawson