Stories
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Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
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Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
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Meet the climate emergency
Find out what led Yinka Shonibare to create the compelling artwork ‘Refugee Astronaut’.
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Sarah Carpenter on making time for herself through creativity
Art provides a refuge for Sarah Carpenter, allowing her to utilise her energy and keep up the momentum of her recovery.
Catalogue
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The primary structures of fabrics : an illustrated classification / by Irene Emery.
Emery, IreneDate: 2009
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Textiles: a industrial washing machine for fabrics. Engraving by J. Petitcolin after J.E. Armengaud.
Armengaud, aîné (Jacques-Eugène), 1810-1891.Date: [1860]Reference: 46076i
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A new or improved method of metallizing woven textile fabrics, especially flannel, in order to develop electricity for hygienic and medicinal purposes / [Ulpiano Rodriguez Pumariega].
Pumariega, Ulpiano Rodriguez.Date: 1886- Pictures
China during the Cultural Revolution: women workers take pleasure in contemplating the multicolour fabrics produced in a successful cotton mill, and delight especially in a bolt of red cloth. Colour lithograph after Zhao Youhua, 1975.
Zhao, Youhua.Date: July 1975Reference: 660902i
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Textiles: three patent diagrams of apparatus for treating fabric. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1856.
Date: 1856Reference: 43563i