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With Dr Isabella Rosner.

In this illuminating recorded lecture, Dr Isabella Rosner explored the fascinating world of embroidered cabinets and caskets made by well-off girls in England between circa 1650 and 1700.

Toward the end of their needlework education, these young women created intricate tabletop boxes — often called cabinets or caskets — to store everything from sewing and writing supplies to jewellery, gems, and tiny treasures hidden in secret compartments.

Dr Rosner showed how these embroidered boxes serve as powerful, thought-provoking windows into girls’ embroidery education and their emerging sense of ownership and personal space. She surveyed the history of these early modern caskets, examining the variety of surviving examples, their intricate compositions, and the ways they functioned as instruments of ownership, privacy, and agency for their young makers and owners.

Isabella also shared rare embroidered casket panels from the Royal School of Needlework’s own collection, bringing these remarkable objects to life.

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