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Examples in the exhibition include:

Stonyhurst Cope, cloth of gold and velvet with embroidered orphrey

Embroidered binding on II Petrarcha

Altar frontal from Cotehele, Cornwall

Cardinal Morton's cope, from Arundel Castle

Dalmatic from Whalley Abbey

Erpingham Chasuble

Altar frontal from Alveley Church, Shropshire

Fayrey funeral pall


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