A tale of devotion and conservation At the heart of the Cowper and Newton Museum lies a remarkable textile—one stitched with care and wrapped up in poetic history. The Cowper Counterpane, a late 18th-century appliqué quilt, was made for the poet William Cowper by Mrs King, a devoted admirer of …
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