Saving Henry VIII's Lost Tapestry

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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For the Tudors, tapestries not only brought warmth and colour to a room, but they were magnificent demonstrations of artistic skill and of moral messages. A campaign is now under way to save a vast golden tapestry – Saint Paul Directing the Burning of the Heathen Books - personally commissioned by Henry VIII around 1535, at the time he broke with Rome. If the campaign is successful, the tapestry will go on display to the public in the Faith Museum, Bishop Auckland in County Durham, in Spring 2024.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Sutherland Forsyth and Claire Barron from the Auckland Project, who are spearheading the campaign to try and save this precious, glorious tapestry for the nation.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:17.8	minutes. I think as a society we undervalue tapestries as a form of artwork and in so doing we turn the Tudor way of seeing art entirely on its head.
1:38.8	Consider that the Abraham tapestries, now at Hampton Court, cost around 2,000 pounds when Hans Holbein,
1:49.3	as court painter, had a salary of 30 pounds a year.
1:54.0	Tappestries not only brought warmth and colour to a room,
1:58.0	but they were magnificent demonstrations of artistic skill and of moral messages.
2:06.0	Tappestries were woven from scratch.
2:09.0	The whole piece of the fabric, including the design, was made using coloured threads wound on
2:14.4	bobbins that's the weft interweave with plain threads stretching in a
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