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Alexandra Makin
Alexandra Makin is a textile archaeologist specialising in early medieval embroidery. A professional embroiderer with a background in Archaeology and textiles, she originally trained at the Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace, on their three-year embroidery apprenticeship. She is the author of the monograph The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery (2019), and has run workshops on different aspects of embroidery, its history and its wider context.
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Buried in Viking Age Britain around 900 CE, the Galloway Hoard is a rich collection of rare and unique objects. This event brings together a team of archaeologists and conservators working on the hoard to explore both its contents and meaning.