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Peasant tapestries were designed for a number of different domestic purposes, including portieres, casement curtains and bed hangings. They became very fashionable in artistic circles and were sold through various shops. This example was designed by Godfrey Blount and made at the Haslemere Peasant Industries in 1900.\r\n\r\nHaslemere Peasant Industries was a community of artist craftsmen and women, established in Surrey in 1894 in an effort to obtain ‘the double pleasure of lovely surroundings and happy work’. Ironwork, pottery, woodwork, fresco painting, hand-press printing, bookbinding, plasterwork and carving were all produced, but textiles were by far the industries’ most important craft. The first weaving sheds were set up by Joseph and Maud King who specialised in hand-woven plain and figured materials in linen, silk and cotton. From 1896 appliqué and embroideries, such as this example, were produced by the Peasant Arts Society founded by Godfrey Blount and his wife Ethel Hine. Local women were recruited for the workshops and trained in weaving and embroidery techniques.\r\n\r\nGodfrey Blount had trained as a painter at the Slade School in London. His designs for embroidered hangings use the simple but very effective technique of linen on linen with linear embroidery in linen thread.","physicalDescription":"Hanging panel of embroidered linen with linen threads in satin stitches and with linen appliqué. Hand woven. With a design of two young men bearing a staff on their shoulders which has a large bunch of grapes lashed to it. Over their shoulders they carry figs and pomegranates. Each of the men reaches up a hand to pluck a large fruit resembling a pineapple. 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Known as the Haselmere Peasant Industries, his workshops trained local women in weaving and embroidery techniques.  This panel represents a biblical story in which spies were sent to Canaan to look for the Promised Land and came back laden with huge grapes.","date":{"text":"17/03/2005","earliest":"2005-03-17","latest":"2005-03-17"}},{"text":"22 ‘THE SPIES’ EMBROIDERED HANGING\r\n1896\r\n\r\nHaslemere Peasant Industries was a workshop started by a group of artists and designers in rural Surrey in 1894. Using local skills, they developed a wide range of artistic products, including textiles. This appliquéd panel, one of the so-called ‘Peasant Tapestries’, shows a biblical story in which spies were sent to Canaan to look for the Promised Land, and came back laden with huge grapes.\r\n\r\nLinen with linen appliqué with edging in linen thread\r\nDesigned by Godfrey Blount (born in Bagshot, Surrey, 1859, died in Haslemere, Surrey, 1937) and made at the Haslemere Peasant Industries, Haslemere, Surrey\r\n\r\nGiven by Mrs Joseph King\r\nMuseum no. T.173-1978\r\n","date":{"text":"2013","earliest":"2013-01-01","latest":"2013-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["T.218-1953"],"accessionNumberNum":"218","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1953,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP3191","2019LT9559","2019LV7756","2019LW7514","2019LW6948"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2005-01-27","availableToBook":false}}