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In the early part of the century, pictorial embroidery became widely fashionable. Lord Lever had expressed his sentiments on many occasions that art should be an ingredient of everyday life and in his opinion, embroidery represented art fashioned out of sheer hard work. His residences in the Wirral, Lancashire and London were filled with needleworks, canvas-work pictures, embroidered mirror-frames, caskets and the like. Somewhat ironically, one of his collections (at Rivington) was entirely destroyed by a suffragette in 1913. The gallery collection is especially rich in examples of British embroidery with stunning examples of tapestries acquired between 1915 and 1920. .
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English
(Mortlake), c 1660 - 70 The Meeting of Hero and Leander at the Temple
of Venus, Sestos Woven in wool and silk;286 x 311 cm approx. Purchased
by Lever, 1918
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French(Gobelins),
c 1730-40 The Report: The Month of July .Woven in wool and silk;
425.5 x 353.5 cm. Purchased by Lever,1918.
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