References
- Towneley Hall Museum and Art Gallery is home to the majority of the Whalley Abbey vestments: a dalmatic, a chasuble and a maniple. A further dalmatic belongs to the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. Together, the four pieces comprising the Whalley Abbey vestments are thought to be one of only two surviving complete sets of pre-Reformation English High Mass vestments. See L. Monnas, ‘Opus Anglicanum and Renaissance velvet: the Whalley Abbey vestments’, Textile History, xxv, no. 2 (1994), pp. 3–27.
- King D., Opus Anglicanum: English Medieval Embroidery (London: The Arts Council, 1963), pp. 7, 50; P. Johnstone, High Fashion in the Church: The Place of Church Vestments in the History of Art from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century (Leeds: Maney, 2002), pp. 48–49.
- Dean B., Ecclesiastical Embroidery (London: B. T. Batsford, 1958), p. 20; King, Opus Anglicanum, pp. 7, 50; D. King and S. Levey, The Victoria & Albert Museum’s Textile Collection: Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750 (London: V&A Publications, 1993), p. 13; Monnas, ‘Opus Anglicanum’, p. 20.
- Rothstein N., Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century: From the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990).
- Brooks H., ‘Embroidery: sources of design, past and present’, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, no. 7 (1955), pp. 14, 20–31.
- Ibid., p. 22.
- Monnas, ‘Opus Anglicanum’, p. 3.
- Ibid., p. 23.
- Ibid., p. 3.
- Tonkin L.C., ‘Developments in the Conservation of Ecclesiastical Textiles: The Whalley Abbey Orphreys c.1390–1500’ (Unpublished MA thesis, University of Southampton, 2009), p. 13.
- Personal communication, Dr Paul Garside, Conservation Scientist, The British Library, 12 February 2009.
- King, Opus Anglicanum, p. 50.
- Benton J.Rebold, Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art (California: ABC– CLIO, LLC, 2009), p. 239.
- Staniland K., Medieval Craftsmen: Embroiderers (London: British Museum Press, 1991), pp. 20–21.
- Ibid., pp. 23, 30.
- Sutton A.F., ‘The shop-floor of the London mercery trade, c.1200–c.1500: the marginalisation of the artisan, the itinerant mercer and the shopholder’, Nottingham Medieval Studies , XLV(2001), pp. 41–42.