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Posted on March 28, 2021February 16, 2022

Curators’ Colloquium on Knitted Textiles 2021

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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Posted on March 28, 2021April 29, 2021

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 …

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Posted on May 28, 2020February 16, 2022

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 …

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Posted on May 22, 2020April 29, 2021

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 …

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Posted on May 19, 2020February 16, 2022

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 …

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