The opening of a suite of galleries at a County Durham Museum is looming ever closer.
Objects are being chosen for display in the Streatlam Galleries, in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.
The galleries are due to open to the public on March 31 and one of the attractions installed this week is a carpet loom donated by Catherine Atkinson, former principal lecturer of woven textiles at Huddersfield University.
Mrs Atkinson, now manager of Lindisfarne Castle, first loaned the Jacquard Sample Loom to The Bowes Museum in 1996 for its exhibition on Barnard Castle carpets.
Joanna Hashagen, keeper of textiles at the museum, said: "We are extremely indebted to Catherine for this donation.
"It dates from about 1900 and is a rare survivor. The woven pattern is created by a Jacquard mechanism, and the cards have been punched to recreate an actual Barnard Castle design of the 1840s.
"Although only narrow, it is exactly the same sort of loom that Barnard Castle carpets would have been woven on."
For more details about the museum, call 01833-690606 or visit www.thebowesmuseum. org.uk
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