EYE-catching seventeenth-century embroidery from the Feller and Ashmolean collections is to go show in an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum Broadway.

The new exhibition, the Stitches in Time: Seventeenth-Century Embroideries from the Feller and Ashmolean Collections, will get underway on Saturday, February 14, and run through to June 7.

It will be displayed in the dedicated exhibition space on the top floor of the seventeenth-century building, which was once a coaching inn.

Colourful raised and flat work pictorial panels, fine white and polychrome samplers and dress accessories will be included in the exhibition.

The embroideries were created through individual use of stitches, colourful silks, metal threads, pearls and semi-precious stones.

The exhibition also includes a remarkable casket that was formerly in the collection of HRH The Princess Margaret.

It is covered with beautifully worked embroidered panels depicting stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

The embroideries illustrate the themes and concerns which occupied the minds of the young women making them.

They often depict biblical stories at a time when religious issues, including the use of images, aroused great controversy.

The museum and shop are open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm.