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The Victoria and Albert Museum

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  1. Robbina
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    First, if you happen at some point in your travels to have time in London, do make time to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum. You will find the Laton Jacket (not the jacket with the embroidery pattern, but a gorgeous jacket who's cut and construction is being used for the reproduction) in a case in the British Galleries along with a portrait of Margaret Laton wearing the jacket.

    If you are not lucky enough to visit the museum in person, you can still visit it on-line. Their address is www.vam.ac.uk and they have a searchable collection of images of some parts of their vast collection. To start searching, click on 'Search the Collections' in the third column of the first page (which is titled Collections).

    From here you can find images of many wonderful items. To see the Laton Jacket and the portrait, put Laton in the search box on the next page. You should see various views of the Jacket along with the portrait of the jacket being worn. You can try other words like 'stumpwork' and 'coif' to find other items of interest. If you put in 'Martha Edlin' you will see two seventeenth century samplers that she stitched under the age of 10 along with a fabulous stumpwork cabinet. The cabinet and polychrome sampler are also on display in the British Galleries.

    Robbin

    Posted 1 year ago #
  2. Robbina
    Administrator

    Well, I was poking around in the wonderful picture collection at the V&A today and guess what I found -- our jacket! Not the cut of the jacket; that is the Laton jacket. But this is the jacket with our embroidery on it. (I would know those gussets anywhere and if you look at it you'll recognize motifs from some of Jill's photos.) If you follow the search instructions above, put in 1359-1900 (which is it's museum number) and you'll see our jacket. Complete with blue strawberries and a reasonably good sense of the play of the metallics in some of the photos. You can also see some of the detatched pieces.

    It's definitely worth a visit to go see these pictures!

    Robbin

    Posted 1 year ago #

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