Addison Embroidery at the Vicarage

I’ve always had a light, airy sort of desire for a bookplate but before ever thought became action, desire seemed to have dissolved away. A bookplate in today’s world seems a bit vain and sel...

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John Rushout spent nearly 10 years on a  protracted Grand Tour, returning home for his father’s death in 1800 when he succeeded to the titles of 6th Baronet Rushout of Milnst and 2nd Baron Nor...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/07/23/a-lord-northwick-alphabet-a-for-acanthus/

I seem to have taken another week off from blogging and this time I’m going to be very British and blame the weather. It was one of those weeks in every month when David had 3 Art Appreciation ...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/07/18/susan-sontags-the-volcano-lover/

  Rarely do I finish a novel having enjoyed it as much as I did when I came to the end of Susan Sontag’s  The Volcano Lover (1992).  But try as hard as I can, I’m finding it difficult to w...

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One quirk of going to a Cathedral School – well, very particularly, going to St Paul’s Cathedral School – is that when the choristers have to be on hand to celebrate the Queen’ s Platinum...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/06/22/sleeve-monogram-m-no-3/

Deeply embedded in the late C18th/early C19th, I feel utterly at ease with wearing this sort of monogram on my sleeve  although the sudden rush of ever so slightly warmer weather means for the f...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/06/13/sleeve-monogram-m-no-2/

My brief blogging interlude on the glories of The Cathedral of the Forest having come to an end, back I swing from embroidery on the large and public scale to that on the small and personal level...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/06/04/sleeve-monogram-m-navy-on-navy/

Restoration of All Saints Newland  continued throughout the 1980s and 90s. The roof was made tight, floors were made safe and those abandoned memorial slabs were dignified with relocation. The o...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/05/30/henry-haig-stained-glass-window-all-saints-church-newland-gloucestershire/

  Beryl Dean designed and oversaw work on textiles for All Saints when she was already in her 70s. She’d not long retired from formal teaching but her enthusiasm and energy for the many projec...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/05/22/beryl-deans-textile-work-for-all-saints-church-newland-gloucestershire-the-chasuble-stole-pulpit-fall-burse-and-veil/

  I’m conscious of describing All Saints Newland as being in Gloucestershire while elsewhere I refer to its location as The Forest of Dean and it struck me how confusing this could be if you d...

http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2022/05/14/beryl-deans-embroidery-for-all-saints-church-newland-gloucestershire-more-lady-chapel-furnishings/