Dorothy Bromiley Phelan is Lancashire born, with textiles in her bolld. Her father worked in the cotton industry and designed cotton bedspreads. Her mother was a Court dressmaker. As a young girl, she was regularly taken by her father to look at the needlework at Platt Hall, in her home city of Manchester. Her knowledge of needlework is considerable and with Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski curated the highly successful 'The Needle's Excellency' exhibition of Stuart needleworks at the Holbunre Museum, Bath, in 2000.
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