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Collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago
In 2016 our School was commissioned by the AIC to dress two male figures on their horses and two further figures engaged in foot combat at the barrier for their...
Collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago
In 2016 our School was commissioned by the AIC to dress two male figures on their horses and two further figures engaged in foot combat at the barrier for their...
Janet Arnold’s Patterns of Fashion
The School of Historical Dress is the residual legatee of the late Janet Arnold, whose series of pattern books began in 1964 with the first edition of Patterns of Fashion...
Janet Arnold’s Patterns of Fashion
The School of Historical Dress is the residual legatee of the late Janet Arnold, whose series of pattern books began in 1964 with the first edition of Patterns of Fashion...
Indian Muslin
A delicate muslin English dress c. 1840–45 in our School collection is a recent acquisition which featured in our 2022 exhibition ‘Our Collection by Colour: No.1 WHITE’. The textile is...
Indian Muslin
A delicate muslin English dress c. 1840–45 in our School collection is a recent acquisition which featured in our 2022 exhibition ‘Our Collection by Colour: No.1 WHITE’. The textile is...
PRAIRIE INTERLACE: Weaving, Modernisms & the E...
I have travelled across Canada many times and love the drive through the Prairie provinces where the sky is so immense you can see changes in the weather from many...
PRAIRIE INTERLACE: Weaving, Modernisms & the E...
I have travelled across Canada many times and love the drive through the Prairie provinces where the sky is so immense you can see changes in the weather from many...
Art Quilts: Embedded with Ideas, Memories and S...
Geeta Khandelwal, a quilter living in Mumbai, India, loves designing and creating quilts and art quilts. She shares her thoughts and her passion for crafts spanning over five decades. “I...
Art Quilts: Embedded with Ideas, Memories and S...
Geeta Khandelwal, a quilter living in Mumbai, India, loves designing and creating quilts and art quilts. She shares her thoughts and her passion for crafts spanning over five decades. “I...
A TANGLE OF THREAD AND ROPE Magdalena Abakanowi...
“I am interested in every tangle of thread and rope and every possibility of transformation: I am interested in the path of a single thread. I am not interested in...
A TANGLE OF THREAD AND ROPE Magdalena Abakanowi...
“I am interested in every tangle of thread and rope and every possibility of transformation: I am interested in the path of a single thread. I am not interested in...
