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This nice gentleman had turned up and he was quite nervous and quite shy, I seem to remember.

He had a bag, I think he might even have been a bin bag and inside it was a flannelette sheet

and inside the flannelette sheet they pulled out the beginnings of this incredible patchwork quilt.

Welcome to the new series of moving pictures. I'm Kathy Fitzgerald and each episode

we're going to take a long loving look at a great artwork and invite you to follow along.

Our first masterpiece isn't a painting, it's a big cover, a two and a half metre square needlework extravaganza

made around 1820 and now kept in the collection of the V&A Museum in London.

He held two ends and I held two ends and people were just stopping as they were walking by and just staring.

If you'd like to see it and trust me, it's worth it.

Follow the link from the moving pictures page on the BBC World Service website.

You'll be taken to a higher resolution photo of the work made by Google Arts and Culture.

Once you're there, click on the image of the cover to zoom in and in and in until you can see the pull and pucker of individual stitches.

This is not a girl having a try out, this is a tour de force, this is a real opus.

This must have been the talk of the entire village or town, this piece.

The colours, the brightness, the diversity of the pattern, it was just such a joyous thing to see.

You probably have an image in mind when you think about a patchwork quilt, flowery cottons, geometric shapes.

This cover is completely different.

It's made of panels of thick woolen cloth, the kind used to make coats, in bright military red, moss green, mouse brown.

An order still, each of the panels is covered with tiny people, cundered from scraps of fabric.

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