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Norman Hartnell, golden cuvettes and cobalt sequins from the Mollie Welch archive, and the 1953 coronation balcony
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Mollie Welch and the Norman Hartnell archive: beads from a royal workroom

Mollie Welch joined Norman Hartnell's Bruton Street workroom in January 1937 and stitched for the royal family through two coronation years. Here is her story and what her surviving beads and sequins are.

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