Exquisite silk dress on loan to Historylinks to be featured in Highland Threads exhibition By Ali Morrison Published: 15:15, 02 March 2021
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Two Sutherland museums are taking part in online exhibition Highland Threads which launches next month.
Historylinks Museum at Dornoch and Strathnaver Museum at Bettyhill have both contributed a historic item of clothing for the exhibition which is focussing on textiles.
The Historylinks silk brocade dress.
Historylinks has put forward a silk brocade dress thought to have been designed and made by James Lehman in Spitalfields, London, in about 1719.