Season 2, Episode 11 (Episode 37)

Curating Needlework: An Interview with Amelia Peck and Melinda Watt (15 April 2021)

  • Amelia Peck
  • Melinda Watt


  • “The Toilet of the Princess” (from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenes), 1690-1715, attributed to the workshop of John Vanderbank the Elder, probably woven by Great Wardrobe (Great Queen Street, Saint Giles-in-the-Fields, London), from the Metropolitan Museum of Art


  • Pictorial carpet, 17th century, Iran, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art


  • Mirror with Jael and Barak, 1672, British, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art


  • Sampler, 1800, Laura Hyde, Franklin, Connecticut, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art


  • “Winter” Needlework Picture, 1819, Hannah Robinson, made in Upper Providence, Pennsylvania, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Details from the Marian Hanging, stitched by Bess of Hardwick and Mary Queen of Scots, 1570-85, from the Victoria and Albert Museum of Art

  • Part of an apron, Mary Delany, c. 1740, from a private collection


  • Easy chair, 1758, Newport, Rhode Island, upholstered by Caleb Gardner, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
  • Back of the easy chair

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