Queensway was a luxurious fabric design woven for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. The design inception was by Robert Gooden, a silversmith and later rector of the Royal College of Art. Warner and Sons wove most of the fabrics used for the coronation.

Queensway was power woven in cotton, lurex and rayon in two colourways; a blue for the balconies of Westminster Abbey and a gold for the Royal Box and the altar frontal and back cloth. The gold colourway is very rare and hard to find. Harry Spinks was responsible for the interior decoration at the Abbey for the coronation.

A mile was woven of the blue colourway. The design is unusual as it depicts the three kingdoms of the United Kingdom but for the first time also depicts the Principality of Wales with a leek.

Once the Coronation had finished the remaining pieces of fabric were and still are used by the Palace of Westminster. Lengths were also given to churches throughout the land and the remaining pieces were cut up and sold as fire screens as souvenirs of the Coronation.