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| Staircase Stitchers Following Stockport Heritage Trust's purchase of the carved tester bed for Staircase House, the remaining funds were spent setting up a project to involve local people in the creation of the bed hangings. 
Elaborate crewel work curtains should one day hang around the bed. Sarah Cotton is holding a sample piece of embroidery. To ensure that the work was completely authentic to the 17th Century, a specialist teacher was recruited. Jane Dew had worked with the Globe Theatre on reproduction costumes, and co-ordinated a large crewel work project at Ford Green Hall in Stoke. After an appeal for local people to take part, the group began in October 2005. Jane had expected just a few interested volunteers to turn up, but was overwhelmed with over 50 keen stitchers, ranging in skill from complete beginners to experienced teachers. The group is in fact still so popular that new volunteers have sadly to be turned away.
This meant that several different projects could be started, not just the crewel work bed hangings. A name was finally decided upon, and the Staircase Stitchers threaded up for action.... | |
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