Caring for wedding dresses & veils
A guide to caring for your wedding dresses and veils.
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Caring for & wearing historic costumes
A guide to caring for and wearing historic costumes.
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Indian textiles & Empire: John Forbes Watson
John Forbes Watson's (1827-1892) idea for 'portable industrial museums', led to the publication of The Collections of the Textile Manufactures of India in 1866, eighteen volumes of mounted and classified samples of Indian textiles containing seven hundred examples in all.
Review: Lining and Backing - The Support of Paintings, Paper and Textiles
Questioning accepted methods through an ongoing process of evaluation and re-assessment is part of conservation practice; issues surrounding the support of paintings, paper and textiles continue to be subject to debate.
Textile Conservation Studio
Until December of last year, Textile Conservation occupied three separate sites. The main studio was situated at the top of the lecture theatre stairs and had been used for some form of conservation activity since 1909. For many years it was known as the Art Workroom and a curious combination of sculpture and textile repair was carried out side by side.
Textile conservation in Russia
Despite extraordinarily rich textile collections there are no specialist training programmes for textile conservators. Only 2100 of the 5000 conservators in Russia are trained.
Consuming Indian textiles
Indian textiles were valued for a variety of reasons in 19th-century Britain. They were prized as symbolic trophies of Britain's empire in India and examples of its material resources, and were also admired as models of good design and inspiration for both manufacturers and consumers.
Donate to the Stained Glass Appeal
We are currently working on an exciting project to conserve and re-install the original stained glass on the landings of the Manfred and Lydia Gorvy Lecture Theatre. We need your help to raise £75,000 to bring these historical features back to their former glory for us all to enjoy.
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Event - British Design 1948-2012:
Sat 31 March 2012–Sun 12 August 2012
EXHIBITION: Celebrate the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘austerity’ games to the
summer of 2012. The exhibition highlights significant moments in the history of British design and how the country continues to nurture artistic talent and be a world leader in creativity and design.
