Bake Off judge Prue Leith is selling off a rare wall-hanging weaving for thousands of pounds. The 5.5ft long piece of woven art has hung on a bedroom wall of her Cotswolds manor home for 40 years but Prue is now downsizing to a smaller house and has put it up for auction.
It was a Christmas present to her in the late 1970s during her time running a Michelin-starred restaurant in London's Notting Hill. The hanging was made and signed by the pioneering British weaver Peter Collingwood whose work is admired and collected around the world.
After moving to a smaller house in Moreton-in-Marsh, Glocestershire, there simply was not enough wall space to keep it. It will be sold by Sworders Auctioneers of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, for £5,000.
