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2 October 2025 - 2 January 2026: The Synthetic Revolution
2 October 2025 - 2 January 2026, Haworth Art Gallery, Manchester Road, Accrington, Lancashire.
The story of the origins of polyester, its development into a marketable product, its global reach, and its wide-ranging impacts that have transformed domestic labour, social life, fashion and cultural arenas, and our environment, will be told in an exhibition as part of the 2025 British Textile Biennial (BTB). Co-curated between Claire Wellesley-Smith and Amber Butchart, the exhibition will explore invention and innovation, past, present and future, through indigenous knowledge to space-age technology from the earliest form of shelter, the tent, to space suits, and from plant-based dyes to the first polymers. With artists and designers, BTB25 looks back to see how the textile pioneers of 20th-century Lancashire were inspired by a bold vision of the future that revolutionised our lives and investigates how our own material future must learn from a distant past that is almost lost to us.
Read more about Synthetics in Slippery Thread: The Synthetic Revolution, featured in Selvedge Issue 126, Deco
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