CLOTH-OF-GOLD CANOPY
■ Expert needlewomen started recently to make the cloth-of-gold canopy which will .be held: over- the King and Queen during the anointing- ceremony of the Coronation, states a London writer. Eighteen symbolic silver - eagles—the ampulla, or eagle of gold, is used for the oil of anointment—will be embroidered on the canopy. It will be fringed with silver, and lined with white satin, and four thin silver.poles will support
it. ■ ■ ■ Four Knights of the Garter will .hold the pall of cloth of .gold over the King when'he is anointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is held over the ; Qjueen during her ' anointing by four Duchesses. The cloth is being specially woven. - The whole canopy will fake many weeks to complete, as the• embroidering- of each.eagle occupies ten days alone.' There is also the quilting and padding of the ■embroideries.. : . . " ' , The King's Imperial mantle or cope is being taken from' Buckingham Palace to the Hoyal School of Needlework to be examined and possibly repaired for the Coronation. .'■ This was originally made for King Edward VII for his coronation in 1902. It is of cloth of gold embroidered with gold insignia, and is put upon'the King by the Dean of Westminster after the anointing ceremony. ' ■-■■"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 14
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