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...
by Gthomas | Jul 7, 2023 | News
Art Fund Student Opportunities: Developments in Art Deco Textile Design. We’ve been pleased to be able to widen our student placement and volunteering programme recently with support from Art Fund which has generously awarded the Warner Textile Archive a grant for six...
by Gthomas | May 15, 2023 | News
Student Placement at the Warner Textile Archive: An Exploration of Nineteenth-Century Silk Design [Pictured: Aleksandra Orekhova explains her research to other Warner Textile Archive volunteers. The design featured, ‘Japanese’, is the earliest paper design that...
by Gthomas | Aug 31, 2022 | News
Warner Textile Archive receives Museum, Archive and Conservation Award from The Textile Society. [Image: Hand-painted design for handwoven silk tissue ‘Warwick’, c.1893] We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the Museum, Archive and Conservation Award...
by Gthomas | Apr 29, 2022 | News
Making Silks & Velvets for Royalty: Warner Textile Archive celebrates Braintree’s connection to the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953: [Hilda Carver and Lily Lee present the velvets woven for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II] As Queen Elizabeth II was crowned...
