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They comprise garments from August’s coronation statue – including the King’s Roman costume and a rediscovered crown hood – as well as items of textile interior decor from the suite of parade rooms on the second floor of the west wing: the First Ante-Chamber, the Audience Chamber and the State Bedroom. The gold and silver fabrics, velvets in royal blue, crimson and ‘Saxon green’, as well as the heavy gold embroidery and gold passements on show in this exhibition represent the culmination of baroque textile art. The exhibition features both the preserved originals and their thread-by-thread replicas produced by French, Italian and German workshops, thus enabling visitors to fully appreciate their former breathtaking splendour.