Embroidered Camouflage Netting and a Coronation Gown.

Camouflage netting may seem like an unusual textile to embroider, but that is just what the Royal School of needle work has done. The Duchess of Cambridge commissioned an embroidered textile for her Back to Nature Garden.

Back to Nature Garden Courtesy Shoot

It drapes over a wooden structure and makes a little den in the garden.You can see it here on the RSN's website. I can just imagine the children having fun peeking through the needlelace openings.

On a different note, there is a very instructive video on the RSN's website showing the work on the restoration of Lady Carnarvon's dress worn to the coronation of George V in 1911. Click here to go to the link. I would love to see the restored dress when it goes on display at Highclere Castle in September. Highclere is now also known as Downton Abbey.