Learn more about the costumes on display in our ‘Dressed for Shaw’ exhibition, new for 2021. The majority of costumes were handmade especially for the exhibition using portraits and inventories from the archives as inspiration for designs and details.

Read about the recognisable ruffs of Elizabethan England, the flamboyant frills of the Georgian gentleman and the weathered wool of the Edwardian era and understand how these items shaped the history of Shaw House.