Harlow Carr: Flora and Thread exhibition

Exhibition / Festival
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8
Nov
31
Jan

RHS Garden Harlow Carr,HG3 1QB

RHS Garden Harlow Carr,HG3 1QB

Address

Crag Lane, Harrogate

Venue

RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Library

Booking

  • Member

    Free garden entry

  • Non-member

    Normal garden admission applies

  • No booking is required for this event

Overview

  • Event times

    Library opening hours: 11am–4pm, daily

  • Subject

    Exhibition / Festival

Come to the library at RHS Garden Harlow Carr and see the Flora and Thread plant-themed exhibition. Featuring artwork on loan from the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby and created by the Whitby Stitchers, Flora and Thread is an embellished textile tent depicting plants gathered by the botanist Joseph Banks on James Cook’s first voyage around the world.

The exhibition pays homage to the intrepid collecting of Sir Joseph Banks, the drawings of Sydney Parkinson and the taxonomic work of Daniel Solander, which together formed the basis for Joseph Banks’ Florilegium. The panels of the tent follow the journey made by the naturalists, showing plants from Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands and New Zealand to Australia and Java.

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Image: Embroidery depicting Ipomoea illustris, created by Christine Landers of the Whitby Stitchers. 
Credit: With permission from the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.

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