Orphreys

One of a series of boards highlighting Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum's collections - this displays part of the textiles collection Ophreys are detailed bands of embroidery. Originally on clerical vestments, the orphreys on this board were made in the first half of the fifteenth century but were applied to an altar frontal in the 17th century. They show pairs of saints, one male and one female, beneath architectural canopies.