Published : 27 May 2021 The National Trust’s longest running conservation project takes an important step forward with a carefully conserved tapestry from a 440-year-old set being brought back to Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. It is the 12th tapestry of the set of 13 to be conserved and returned to Hardwick Hall, after several years in the care of specialist textile conservators. The work on the tapestries is the Trust’s largest textile conservation project, having started in 2001, and will not be completed until 2023. As the penultimate one returns to Hardwick from its conservation treatment, the final tapestry has begun its journey to the Trust’s specialist Textile Conservation Studio in Norfolk, for a process expected to take 24 months.