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I recommend a cup of tea (or something stronger if you wish) and a box of chocolates to accompany you as you watch it on iPlayer and pretend that you live in the world that the wonderful Amanda Vickery describes. I particularly like the part where she describes the quilt as the family's history (but then, I would!)
And, if you haven't had your fill of pretty fabrics, I suggest looking at the V & A museum collection images - including this pretty piece of dress fabric.
Of course, all these pretty relics of the past once belonged to real people who had families, lives, aspirations, problems, and maybe descendants out there right now. What your family may have owned or enjoyed of these things varies according to circumstance, but as the section of the programme showing the foundling hospital demonstrates, beautiful fabric could be owned by the poorest and most desperate, as well as the richest. And, as I'm sure you're fed up of me saying by now, the only way to gain a true understanding of your ancestry, is to also learn about social and local history.
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