A stitch in time

An intriguing variety of textiles, including an emerald silk damask woven with flowers, a 16th-century embroidered panel and a Ghanaian kente, star at the Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair

Huon Mallalieu

AFTER eight successful years at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, followed by three at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, there were no suitable dates for the Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair last year because of Compton Verney’s 20th-anniversary programme. The 2024 edition would normally have taken place in November, but it was already too late to find another venue to showcase CADA’s members from the five counties that make up the Cotswolds, so now the fair ventures to Chelsea Old Town Hall in London SW3, to run from tomorrow until Sunday (March 23). In the past, CADA has invited selected outsiders to join them and, this time, honorary Cotswoldians include Lennox Cato of Eden-bridge, Kent, with furniture, online dealers Wigs on the Green and the Limner Company, jointly presenting silhouettes, miniatures and…

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Country Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 19, 2025

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