by Gthomas | Apr 15, 2025 | News
A Lifetime In The Making Tracey Dulson and Sally Robinson show the quilt at the Warner Textile Archive. In 1957, when she was 20 years old, Barbara Springate discovered her passion for quilting. Within the collection of the Warner Textile Archive is her dazzling...
by Gthomas | Jan 27, 2025 | News
Life as a Collections Volunteer Museums are spaces for communication and collaboration, where objects come to life when we hold, observe or tell their stories. Learning how museum collections evolve to reflect the diverse realities of society and providing access...
by Gthomas | Sep 26, 2024 | News, Uncategorized
Warner Textile Archive X Anglia Ruskin University The Archive collaborated with Anglia Ruskin University to inspire the study and works of their first year students doing the courses in Fashion Design and Fashion Communication & Branding. Students visited The...
by Gthomas | Feb 16, 2024 | News
Poppy’s placement Year at Warner Textile Archive Archiving a collection of paper designs by Daniel Walters, dating from 1850 to 1875 Coming from a textiles background, I knew I was going to enjoy working at Warner Textile Archive. I am a weaver, and having...
by Gthomas | Dec 18, 2023 | News
New research and wider access shared by the Warner Textile Archive as part of An Artist in Silk: Revealing the Imagination of the nineteenth-century silk industrySupported by the Museum, Archive and Conservation Award from The Textile Society At the Warner Textile...
by Gthomas | Aug 21, 2023 | News
Successful student opportunities programme funded by Art Fund completed at the Warner Textile Archive. Our student team, funded by Art Fund, hosted a popular talk to share their research and display on the 1920s collections that they have been working to catalogue...