The Chinese hall of Huis ten Bosch Palace, the residential palace of the King and his family, now has a Brabant touch. The new curtains that were made in the Tilburg textile museum now hang there. Together with the 150 embroiderers, Queen Máxima and Princess Beatrix saw the curtains for the first time on Wednesday. “It was amazing.”
The artisans started making the curtains in January last year. This happened in the TextielLab, the professional workshop of the TextielMuseum in Tilburg. Dozens of embroiderers from all over the country participated. And Queen Máxima also embroidered a piece.
The curtains are a modern version of the 18th century silk curtains from the Chinese Hall. Images of sights from all over the country are embroidered on it, such as the Evoluon in Eindhoven and the Palace-Council House in Tilburg.
In recent months, the curtains were first exhibited in the Textile Museum. Even then, the queen came to visit and immediately invited the embroiderers to The Hague to take a look as soon as the curtains were hanging. That promise was fulfilled on Wednesday. The curtains hang in the Chinese Hall, a room in Huis ten Bosch Palace that is used for receptions and official occasions.
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