Episode 90

The Embroidery of Lorina Bulwer: An Interview with Ruth Battersby


Ruth Battersby, Norfolk Museums Service (Malachy Luckie) 2024

Man’s overcoat made from St. Bernard’s dog hairs, 1935-1939, Norfolk Museums Service, NWHCM: 1980.448

Lorina Bulwer, embroidered scroll, 1900-1910, Norfolk Museums Service, NWHCM: 2004.824.2

“Frayed” exhibition, at the Time and Tide from October 2013 to March 2014

Bedhangings made by Anna Margaretta Brereton at Brinton Hall, Norfolk, c. 1801-5, Norfolk Museums Service. NWHCM: 1929.116

Lorina Bulwer, embroidered scroll, 1904, Thackeray Museum of Medicine, 598.001

Elizabeth Parker, sampler, circa 1830, Victoria and Albert Museum, T.6-1956

Detail from John Crake, embroidery representing the evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940, Norfolk Museums Service, NWHCM: 1944.126

Lorina Bulwer, embroidered scroll, 1901-1912, Norfolk Museums Service, NWHCM: 2014.29.1

Detail of Lorina Bulwer’s patchworking

Lorina Bulwer, applique panel, 1906-1907, Norfolk Museums Service, NWHCM: 2014.29.2

Patchwork tea cosy, circa 1900-1920, The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles, 1992-11-A

Thomas Jeckyll, details from a hanging for a pagoda for the 1876 Philadelphia exhibition, NWHCM: 1968.240
Thomas Jeckyll, details from a hanging for a pagoda for the 1876 Philadelphia exhibition, NWHCM: 1968.240