Written by Roslyn Chapman and Lin Gardner We had planned to hold the Curators’ Colloquium in a university seminar room with a small audience of museum and collection professionals …
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Curators’ Colloquium Q&A
Compiled by Roslyn Chapman The colloquium prompted several questions which the speakers were unable to answer on the day. These questions were sent to the speakers, and we are …
Family Knitstories
In our second post on the personal knitting stories of the ‘Fleece to Fashion’ project team, Lynn Abrams remembers a family knitting heritage of dolls’ clothes and much loved …
Guiding Hands
In our last post we pondered on the fate of textile crafts during this pandemic. In the next few posts we thought we would share with you some of …
Textile Craft and Covid-19
Written by Lynn Abrams Much has been written about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on craft with many mainstream and social media outlets latching on to an apparent …