“The Genius of Grinling Gibbons from Journeyman to King’s Carver” How do you put on a...
Putting Kew Palace to Bed Kew Palace welcomes many visitors during spring and summer. It is...
How do you catalogue architectural samples and object fragments? That was the question, or rather...
The back of a tapestry can help us unpick the history of its creation and repair...
Welcome to this, the first in a series of blog posts where we will be sharing...
It has been a time consuming process dyeing the support fabrics, net, ribbons and threads needed...
The metal threads on our throne canopy are remarkable survivors from a time when bling really...
As you wander around our palaces you will see thousands of objects on display, from the...
Throne canopies are complicated objects; this one has 15 separate parts, 12 of which are textiles...
This new addition to our collection has been purchased with help from the Art Fund. In the heyday...