Crescent Light Sacred Textiles at Waddesdon

Crescent has lit objects in Sacred Stitches: Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury in Buckinhamshire.
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839-1898) and his sister Alice (1847 -1922), acquired textiles, whose former uses include altar frontals and part of vestments, as furnishings for the Bachelors' Wing at Waddesdon and for Alice's Pavilion on the neighboring Eythrope estate. The textiles were mounted as banners hangings and chair coverings, their exoticism and rich colours helping to create the sense of opulence and luxury which was so characteristic of the Rothschild interiors.
The Sacred Stitches exhibition examines techniques, original uses and the transformation of the textiles once they entered Rothschild collections.
The cabinet mounted objects were lit from above and below using the 'Lightbar' linear fibre optic system powered by CRE096 100W TH projectors.