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Title	The Saxon age family
Collection	Crafts Study Centre
Weaver	Elizabeth Peacock
Description	Sample board of weavings for the Anglo-Saxon family.. Scaled down textiles in wool and linen designed and made to clothe model figures in the Festival of Britain exhibition on the South Bank, London, 1951
Part Of Series	One of a set of three sample boards
Id Number Current Accession	2002.10.3
Location Creation Site	Ditchling, Sussex, UK
Subject	woven textiles, sample board, textile sample board
History	The samples relate to cloths made as part of a commission for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The commission was for cloths used on four groups of half-size figures to illustrate the development of textiles in the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Saxon period.
Rights Owner	Managed by the Crafts Study Centre.
Style Period Period	1950s