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The collection of late 16th-century embroidery, needlework and wrought linen at the National Trust's Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is the most important of its type in Britain, and probably in the Western World. In the first ever catalogue of this extraordinary collection, Santina Levey looks at each piece in turn, explaining its creation.

About the Author

Santina M. Levey is an expert in 16th- and 17th-century textiles. She worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for 20 years, the last 9 of them as Keeper of the Department of Textiles. She first visited Hardwick Hall in 1967, since when she has become the foremost specialist on the textiles there. Her publications include An Elizabethan Inheritance (The National Trust, 1998), an introduction to the Hardwick collection.