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...
by Gthomas | Apr 19, 2022 | News
FREE VIRTUAL TALK CELEBRATING THE PLATINUM JUBILEE Warner & Sons: Royal Connections and Commissions We are pleased to announce a free virtual talk to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee on Thursday 16th June 2022 at 7.30pm. Join us for this free online lecture...
by Gthomas | Apr 12, 2022 | News
Design Icon Enid Marx in The Colourist by Annie Sloan. [Spot and Stripe by Enid Marx, blue colourway powerwoven by Warner and Sons c.1943] The Warner Textile Archive is pleased to support Annie Sloan with supplying an image of an Enid Marx design from our collection...
