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Revealed: Our bursary award winners
The winners of the Geoffrey Squires Bursary Award for 2019 have been announced. The selection panel decided to award £1000 each to two excellent projects. One award will help to fund photographic images for a new book on embroidery in the Anglo-Saxon period. The second award goes to a Norfolk weaver who is researching the unsung heroines of Norfolk's worsted industry, the women who span the yarn to keep the weavers working. Read more here. 
Take a look back at shawls exhibition
0ur exhibition, Norwich Shawls, Past Glory, Present Inspiration, drew record numbers of enthusiastic visitors to Norwich Cathedral in 2016. Now you can take a look back at the exhibition through our online catalogue. View the catalogue slideshow 
WHAT'S NEW
Glorious gold: The amazing afternoon brought to us by History Wardrobe when they investigated and recreated the portrait of Adele Block-Bauer as The Woman in Gold. Check our news page. Make a Quant-style minidress: Inspired by Meridith Towne's March talk, Sewing the 60s? Then get a free minidress pattern from the V&A. Check our news page. Find out more about costume and textiles: Do you want to find out more about our costume and textile heritage? Here are some resources which may help. Find out more. |
The Costume & Textile Association is an independent charity seeking to promote the unique costume and textile collection of the Norfolk Museums Service.
Norwich is a fine city whose heritage owes much to the textile industry which brought wealth to the city between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. The legacy can still be enjoyed today: Norwich is still enriched by the different styles, culture, architecture and language that can be traced back to the ‘Strangers’ who came from the Low Countries to work in the textile industry. The Costume and Textile Association (C&TA) is a lively organisation bringing together people who are keen to support and learn more about the history and development of costume and textiles. Find out more about us The C&TA works to raise money for the museums service, but is independent of it. Over the last three decades Costume and Textile Association members have contributed more than £100,000 to enable the Norfolk Museums Service to extend and improve its costume and textile collection. Find out more about our donations Did you know? Wealthy Dutch gentry wanted the best for their clothes... and the best was cloth made in Norwich. Thanks to the C&TA the Museums Service collection includes a Dutch skirt made from beautiful Norwich fabric. Find out more |
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