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On Sunday 13 July, the Tempo Half Marathon will begin and end at Compton Verney.

Please note that we are still open to visitors on this day, however there will be a rolling road block in the morning, and the site may be busier than usual due to this event so please allow yourself more time to travel.

Wool Work:

A Sailor’s Art

26 March 2011 – 5 June 2011

“This is embroidery, but not as we know it” Charles Darwent, The Independent.

About the
exhibition

Exploring the links between sailors, art and craft through the history of the embroidered wool pictures made by sailors in the 19th century. Starting with items in Compton Verney’s own Folk Art collection, the exhibition revealed how sailors used sources, from ship portraits to flags, and great individual expression to produce remarkable personal tributes to the ships on which they sailed and to their own maritime histories.