Category Archives: Textile Museums

Embroidery in World War 2

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Liz Plummer

Lynn Openshaw asks for help with her textile student research. She writes: I am a textile student researching the use of embroidery in WW2 – especially for occupational therapy purposes in hospitals, convalescence homes and POW camps. If any of … Continue reading →

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V & A Online Journal

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Liz Plummer

I’ve just discovered that the V &A (Victoria & Albert Museum in London) has an Online Journal which looks very interesting. There are a couple of patchwork/quilting related articles – Michele Walker: Keepsakes of Identity: Memoriam and Doing Time: Patchwork … Continue reading →

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Another Woollen Mill

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Liz Plummer

While we were in North Wales, we went to a second woollen mill, called Brynkir, just north of Porthmadog.    It had a water wheel to power the machines: Here are some of the machines we saw.  A bobbin winder: … Continue reading →

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Trefriw Woollen Mill

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Liz Plummer

As I type this, we are still on holiday but on my only access to the internet yesterday, Windows Live Writer didn’t want to publish my last post so I doubt if you’ll get to read it until we get … Continue reading →

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Travels in North Wales

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Liz Plummer

I’m actually back from holiday now but I wrote a series of blog posts on holiday so they’ll be popping up over the next few days! I tried to publish this while I was away but for some reason Windows … Continue reading →

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Some looms

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Liz Plummer

I didn’t find much of textile interest while on holiday (except in terms of inspiration like the manhole covers). There was a silk factory which had a museum attached but I was told by the tourist office in Tours that … Continue reading →

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