Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Cushion cover with medallions illustrating fables in a trellis enclosing rose, thistle and lily motifs, and a fox devouring nestlings that have fallen out of their nest, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Close view of flame stitch (also known as Irish Stitch or Bargello) chair back needlepoint embroidery in the Music Room at Westwood Manor, near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire

A yellow flag at Trerice, embroidered with a Cornish chough, which flew at Trerice during the summer of 1940 when the Local Defence Volunteers drilled on the Parade Ground

Octagonal canvas-work panel showing plants or herbs derived from sixteenth-century botanical plate books, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire