The Greensleeves Project exhibition is currently at
Athelhampton House

Almost 450 years after the song first caught the attention of the Elizabethan public, the Greensleeves Project has brought historians, musicians and makers together to ask:

• Who was Greensleeves - and what might she have worn?

Find out more at our new exhibition showcasing the clothing and accessories reconstructed for the Greensleeves Project, alongside a range of information about the social and historical context of the song and its elements.

Greensleeves’s gifts document not only the clothing of the 1580s but also fabrics, embroidery, and many other aspects of material culture. The extraordinary wealth of evidence contained in the song’s 18 verses has formed the basis of this ambitious reconstruction of sixteenth century dress.

There is also a textile handling display, and an opportunity to view films made on the subject of Greensleeves by Bernadette Banner.

Exhibition devised by Tamsin Lewis and designed and curated by Rachel Jardine.

Further locations to be announced