Charlotte Brontë’s 200th anniversary is being celebrated by the Bankfield Museum in Halifax.

The free-entry museum has joined the year-long festival, which is being masterminded by the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth.

The Halifax contribution is entitled Splendid Shreds Of Silk And Satin: A Celebration Of Charlotte Brontë In Quilts.

Yorkshire quilters have responded to a Brontë Quilt Challenge, devised by novelist Tracy Chevalier, herself a quilter, and sponsored by the Quilters’ Guild Of The British Isles and the Brontë Society.

The submitted quilts will be displayed at Bankfield Museum as part of the Splendid Shreds exhibition, along with the patchwork quilt worked on by the Brontë sisters and their Aunt Branwell.

Rarely displayed due to its size and fragile nature, the quilt is unfinished and was hand-sewn by the Brontë sisters from patches of silk, taffeta, velvet and cotton, and has a calico backing.

The exhibition will also be complemented by a new version of the Brontë quilt, which has been lovingly created by three members of the Totley Brook Quilters from Sheffield.

The Bankfield Museum is open from Tuesdays to Saturdays, along with Bank Holidays, between 10am and 4pm.

The 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth marks the first year of a five-year festival entitled Brontë200, marking several Brontë bicentennials.