Biscuit (cookie) flavour: Orange, cardamom, and vanilla
Decoration: Royal icing base. Some designs painted onto royal icing using food colouring gels and vodka, others piped in royal icing. Aged effect created using a sgraffito technique.
Context: Inspired by the patterns, textures, and materials that furnished the houses of the early modern English ‘upper middling sort’. Based on Alex Hewitt‘s research into Shakespeare’s lost interiors. For more on Alex’s work, see this blog post and this online exhibition.
Top row (in the individual biscuit photographs below, L-R):
- Wall painting at Charterhouse Priory, Coventry
- Wall painting at Charterhouse Priory, Coventry
- Wall painting in the collections of the Museum of Oxford, originally from 3 Cornmarket Street
Middle row (L-R):
- Tapestry panel (c.1571-90) in the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Frieze in the collections of Canterbury Museum
- Wood carving at Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
Bottom row (L-R):
- Wood carving at The Commandery, Worcester
- Plasterwork ceiling at The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow
Ella Hawkins 