{"id":5146,"date":"2011-05-15T21:56:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2011-05-15T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:56:48","slug":"royal-school-of-needlework-and-the-royal-wedding-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/royal-school-of-needlework-and-the-royal-wedding-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal School of Needlework and the Royal Wedding Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a neat news video a few weeks ago on the <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/sunday-short-takes-30\/\">Sunday Short Takes<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal-needlework.org.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal School of Needlework<\/a> and they got a lot more attention recently when it was revealed that they worked on Catherine Middleton&#8217;s wedding dress. There is a press release at the RSN website with some of the details of their work.<\/p>\n<p>I know my fellow needleworkers would like some more details and up close pictures, but they seem to be hard to come by! At least there are plans for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/royal-wedding\/8486813\/Royal-wedding-Kate-Middletons-dress-to-go-on-public-display.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> dress to go on public display.<\/a> So here are some links I collected, including some pictures and interviews with the embroiderers who worked on the dress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-13249018\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal wedding: Dress embroiderers were kept in the dark<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1382348\/Royal-Wedding-Kate-Middletons-secret-meetings-dress-designer-Henry-VIIIs-favourite-palace.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Revealed: Kate&#8217;s &#8216;secret meetings&#8217; with dress designer in Henry VIII&#8217;s favourite palace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/royal-wedding\/8485780\/Royal-wedding-the-team-of-women-who-worked-in-secret-to-create-Kate-Middletons-dress.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal wedding: the team of women who worked in secret to create Kate Middleton&#8217;s dress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/pictures\/2ZGs3zfA3K_\/Embroiderers+Catherine+Duchess+Cambridge+Wedding\/SIVt2hlC2NH\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Related images<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> The announcement has now been made about the dress going on display this summer at Buckingham Palace. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcollection.org.uk\/default.asp?action=article&#038;ID=952\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more at the Royal Collection website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a neat news video a few weeks ago on the Sunday Short Takes about the Royal School of Needlework and they got a lot more attention recently when it was revealed that they worked on Catherine Middleton&#8217;s wedding dress. There is a press release at the RSN website&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/royal-school-of-needlework-and-the-royal-wedding-dress\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}