VISITORS threaded their way through an unusual exhibition of embroidery, taking a look at skills which have spanned five centuries.
Shirley Spenceley believes she is the only person teaching three dimensional embroidery called Stumpwork in the North-East today. The form dates back to the 16th Century.
Visitors were reported to be streaming in through the doors of Pinchinthorpe Hall, near Guisborough, yesterday, the setting for 360 exhibits of embroidery and where Mrs Spenceley has held her embroidery classes for more than five years. Some of her students put on an embroidery demonstration for visitors.
Seventy five women and one man regularly attend her classes at the hotel, which let visitors look round its Georgian kitchen garden and grounds yesterday.
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