Collection of Suffrage Banners

In the noughties, the suffrage movement had huge rallies, with hundreds of thousands of women. Unlike the trade union rallies, they generally made their own banners rather than buying them from professional corporations.

Some were painted onto plain backgrounds but others called on all the tricks of Victorian needlework and involved applique, quilting, embroidery and embellishment.

Some of the surviving banners have been put into an online collection: http://www.vads.ac.uk/results.php?cmd=advsearch&words=women%B4s+library+suffrage+banners+collection&field=all&oper=or&words2=&field2=all&mode=boolean&submit=search&FSB=1