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Cushion Champions
Here are the winners of the Cushion Competition judged at October's Members' Meeting.
Congratulations to all. Overall winner: Dilys Harvey for her beautiful layered organza kantha quilted landscape (left), Heather Hasthorp (centre) for best use of materials and (right) Jean Smith's charming hand embroidered portrait of a pet cat
Congratulations to all. Overall winner: Dilys Harvey for her beautiful layered organza kantha quilted landscape (left), Heather Hasthorp (centre) for best use of materials and (right) Jean Smith's charming hand embroidered portrait of a pet cat
C&TA publishes a stunning new Colouring Book.
More than just a colouring book, this delightful new publication from C&TA would make a perfect gift for anyone interested in fashion. It is full of beautiful historically accurate illustrations by former London College of Fashion tutor Stephen Worth. There are also lots of fascinating facts about nineteenth century women's fashions and the accessories that went with them, as ladies through the decades took to wearing ever larger and more elaborate crinolines, bustles and bows. A feast for the imagination for all ages. |
Illustrator and costume historian Stephen Worth
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C&TA Book Launch: Norwich Textiles
We are also celebrating the publication of Dr Michael Nix's long awaited history of Norwich Textiles - A Global Story 1750-1840 launched at a busy Publication Launch Party organised by the C&TA at the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell. The book has received universal praise for its beautiful production and the comprehensive and fascinating new research it contains. It has been heralded as a go-to text for anyone studying woven textiles, the global Norwich Textile industry and the city of Norwich itself.
Geoffrey Squire Memorial Bursary 2023 Award Winner
The Costume and Textile Association is delighted to announce that Anna Deacon has been awarded £2000 to support her research project Hidden in the Archives: Heirloom Textiles of Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. This was the unanimous recommendation of the independent Selection Panel for the award.
Anna is now based in Auckland, New Zealand, after a career in UK and is currently studying for an MA in Historical Costume at the University of Bournemouth.
Her project funded by the bursary will study in depth Eurocentric garments from the 18th and early 19th centuries which are held in the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and bring them to a wider public. This she intends to achieve by researching contemporary construction methods in order to make precise garment textile re-creations, and also discovering the “back stories” of the garments through engaging with Auckland family heritage groups. She plans as well to devise an easily-accessible pattern-drafting system similar to that of Janet Arnold in her Patterns of Fashion series. This would be for use by the wider interested public, and she intends to publish her findings in text, talks and online.
Congratulations to Anna and we look forward in due course to hearing about her progress.
The Costume and Textile Association is delighted to announce that Anna Deacon has been awarded £2000 to support her research project Hidden in the Archives: Heirloom Textiles of Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. This was the unanimous recommendation of the independent Selection Panel for the award.
Anna is now based in Auckland, New Zealand, after a career in UK and is currently studying for an MA in Historical Costume at the University of Bournemouth.
Her project funded by the bursary will study in depth Eurocentric garments from the 18th and early 19th centuries which are held in the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and bring them to a wider public. This she intends to achieve by researching contemporary construction methods in order to make precise garment textile re-creations, and also discovering the “back stories” of the garments through engaging with Auckland family heritage groups. She plans as well to devise an easily-accessible pattern-drafting system similar to that of Janet Arnold in her Patterns of Fashion series. This would be for use by the wider interested public, and she intends to publish her findings in text, talks and online.
Congratulations to Anna and we look forward in due course to hearing about her progress.
Strangers Hall Celebrates 100 Years
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Visitors to Norwich can admire new window displays at Strangers Hall Museum designed to mark 100 years since Sir Leonard Bolingbroke gifted this beautiful medieval merchant's house to the city of Norwich and celebrating its 100 years as a museum in public ownership. We are particularly proud that the C&TA's Founder Pamela Clabburn features prominently in the centre window (the figure far right). The displays have been created by Hannah Broadway, Illustrator and Designer, working with Strangers’ Hall curators, and were funded by Norwich Freemen’s Charity. They herald a special centenary programme – Strangers’ Hall 100 – which includes events, new displays and a number of free entry days. |
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IN THE SPOTLIGHTNew acquisitions for Norfolk Museum Services
C&TA has purchased two theatrical new additions to the costume and textile collections of Norfolk Museum Services: A luxurious Liberty & Co velvet opera gown, and a fancy dress costume from around the 1960s in the style of Carmen Miranda.
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THINGS TO DO...
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Virtual Tour of Textile Treasures at Norwich Castle Join Curator Ruth Battersby-Tooke to discover some true textile treasures from Norfolk Museums' collection. Textile Treasures (23 October 2021 -20 February 2022) was a temporary exhibition celebrating some of the best loved textiles in Norwich Castle’s nationally important Costume and Textile Collection. The exhibition showcased local connections and personal histories as told through textiles created to provide comfort, care and as a medium for self-expression. The pieces on show combined incredible artistry with emotional resonance which offered an insight into the lives of ordinary people. With themes of collaborative creativity, gift-giving, recycling, friendship, family and love the exhibition was even more relevant after the experiences of the pandemic. Click on here to see more: |
If you enjoyed this film, check out the six part audio series 'Unstitched' which takes a closer look
at some of the objects that featured in Textile Treasures:
Click on this link to listen now to all 6 episodes.
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Norwich Textiles Trail
A 3 mile walk taking around 2 hours explores the buildings associated with Norwich's historic textiles trade. Norwich was once world famous for its textiles. Queen Victoria had five of the luxurious Norwich shawls. Find out more about Norwich’s world-famous textiles industry and explore many of the buildings associated with textiles trade and manufacture with this self-guided trail. The whole trail developed by C&TA President Vanessa Trevelyan and The Norwich Society covers about 3 miles and takes around two hours to complete, although you are free to dip in and out as much as you like. Vanessa will be giving a talk to members on Saturday 4th March 2023. Click here to load the App onto your mobile device; https://www.thenorwichsociety.org.uk/explore-norwich/norwich-textiles-trail |
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Preserving the Bellepheron Tapestries
The C&TA have agreed to finance conservation work to enable the display of a panel from the extraordinary set of five Bellerophon Tapestries in the forthcoming British Museum Partnership Medieval Gallery as part of the redevelopment of Norwich Castle’s Norman Keep. C&TA funds have already paid for photography which will provide digital access to the tapestries remotely and in the redeveloped gallery enabling the whole story of the myth of Bellerophon to be told, and showing close-up details and giving an insight into the conservation process. The rest of the grant will be used to carry out a minimal conservation treatment so the panel itself can be displayed for two years. Read full report here (Download Word document) |
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