This exhibition of inlaid textiles features significant examples from 1500 to the present. Horsemen, blossoms, animals, religious stories and spray painted stencil images unfold as a baroque pictorial cosmos on tapestries and covers.

All these objects are made in a textile intarsia (inlaid patchwork) technique, ornamented and refined by additional textile techniques. The works are pictorial, straddling the boundary between art and craft. Displaying the work in a gallery will encourage new audiences and develop the debate around pictorial representation.  There are plans to supplement the exhibition with a series of schools' workshops, led by members of our Art team also a three-day artist's residency during the October half term, in the Gallery's Artspace.

The exhibition is organised by the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. After Vienna and Bautzen Leeds is the only English venue.

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