Maria Jordan is Studio Manager of our Textile Conservation Studio at Blickling, Norfolk. It is our only specialist in-house textile conservation treatment facility and is tasked with caring for the over 150,000 individual items in our textile collection. One of Maria's first tasks when joining the studio was conserving some of the oldest and largest tapestries we care for – Hardwick Hall’s 'Story of Gideon'. While working on this set of 13, one in particular – 'Gideon choosing his army' – has become one of her favourite objects. Here she tells us about the conservation work and why the tapestry is particularly special to her.



