The Prince's Bedspread: 1745
HRH Prince Charles Edward Stuart was gifted a fine blue bedspread in 1745 ...
... made by the ladies of St-Nazaire, embroidered in the middle with the Arms of Brittany and of Scotland, in Brittany duck and Breton ermine.
Quelles Armes? Dans l’église de St-Nazaire les armes de Bretagne ( hermines ) avec la couronne des ducs de Bretagne ( couronne fermée signe de souveraineté) avec autour le collier de l'Ordre de l'Hermine. Et pour l'entrée du chateau Guérande la même chose ....
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Whatever next?
As always, we are looking for volunteer embroiderers, brodereuses, who might tackle a gift for today and certainly well in time for the next major Prestonpans Tapestry Exhibition in France at Bayeux in September/ October 2013.
Published Date: November 28th 2012
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