The Royal Embroidery exhibition attracted more than forty-two thousand visitors to the Textile Museum in Tilburg. The royal family also regularly came to see the new curtains for the king’s palace in The Hague. Queen Máxima worked on it herself.
The Textile Museum collaborated with various embroidery groups in the country to make the curtains. Images of typical Dutch places are embroidered on the curtains, such as the Evoluon in Eindhoven and the palace-Raadhuis in Tilburg. Queen Máxima also regularly embroidered pieces with the embroidery groups. In total, 150 people from all over the country worked on the curtains. In November, Máxima opened the exhibition in the Textile Museum.
Above expectations
Director Jochem Otten of the Textile Museum is very happy with the visitor numbers for the exhibition: “It is beyond all expectations. It was a memorable period. The response is very enthusiastic.”
The new curtains are intended for the Chinese room of Paleis Huis ten Bosch. The fabrics and design are inspired by the historic curtains that hung in that room before. They were made in China in the 18th century. But these curtains have become too fragile. Water and other natural elements play a major role. A Chinese river can be seen on the old one, a Dutch river delta on the new one. Both the old and the new curtains can be seen in the exhibition.
Until Whit Monday
The exhibition Royal embroidery can be seen in Tilburg until Whit Monday. The curtains will then immediately move to their final place in Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague.