In this artwork, how is the Name and story discussed?
It is not known where the name Five Sisters  originates. It first appeared in print in Francis Drake's 1736 Eboracum; or the History and Antiquities of the City of York. It is possible that it a corruption of Five Cistercians. There is also a legend of five women working the design into a tapestry. An article in a 1950 newspaper begins the story with "Centuries ago there lived at a house called Calais Wold, not far from Bishop Wilton, in the Pocklington area, five sisters, each of whom made a tapestry."
Charles Dickens included the legend The Five Sisters of York in chapter six of Nicholas Nickleby with five sisters all working on embroideries. He wrote that "the device was of a complex and intricate description, and the pattern and the colours of all five were the same." At the end of the story, after one of the sisters had died, "they sent abroad to artists of great celebrity in those times, and... caused to be executed in five large compartments of richly stained glass a faithful copy of their old embroidery work." The story was illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, better known as Phiz.
Pocklington Hablot Knight Browne York Cistercians Charles Dickens Phiz Francis Drake's Nicholas Nickleby Bishop Wilton