Events

Flockage is a unique exhibition that aims to explore flock's fascinating forms and flock's use and status within design through historical and contemporary examples brought together for the first time.

http://russell-cotes.bournemouth.gov.uk/

Tel: 01202 451823

Textile specialists dealing in Turkoman, Balouch, Caucasian, Tibetan and Chinese rugs will be exhibiting. Also lectures.

Tel: 07747 114757

An illustrated course which over 6 Tuesday sessions explores everything from the Bayeaux tapestry to Victorian corsets and from woad dyed textiles to suffragette banners. Cost: £30 for all 6 sessions.
The course is presented by Margo Singer M.Ed, author of ‘Textile Arts’ and ‘Textile Surface Decoration.’

textileart@margosinger.co.uk

Tel: 0161 860 0922

Waller's art takes various forms, as clothing, as veils of cloth, and formed in collaboration with glass.

www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk

The theme of the symposium is dress and performance covering every aspect of theatre, film dance and re-enactment.

www.costumesociety.org.uk

In response to the resurgence of public interest knitting has enjoyed in recent years, this interdisciplinary conference proposes an exploration of knitting from a broad range of theoretical and practical perspectives.

www.knittinghistory.co.uk

Horgan@soton.ac.uk

An exhibition in association with the Royal School of Needlework, celebrating 150 years of the Royal Opera House, focusing on key events and historical periods, represented through costume and photography.

www.royal-needlework.org.uk

This exhibition rediscovers the intriguing work of the Festival Pattern Group. This group of crystallographers, designers and manufacturers was inspired by the patterns discovered in crystal structures to create an eclectic array of textiles, wallpapers, carpets and more for the 1951 Festival of Britain.

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/

A variety of exhibits, from stain glass windows, enamels, tapestries, domestic furniture and homeware made in the 1880s and 1890s in Glasgow and Edinburgh show the lasting impact of the Arts and Crafts movement.

www.aagm.co.uk/code/emuseum.asp?page=home

Networks of Design responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design, technology, humanities and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of interactions within processes of knowledge formation. Keynote speakers include theorist Bruno Latour and Droog collaborator Jurgen Bey.

www.networksofdesign.co.uk

networksofdesign@falmouth.ac.uk

The Henry Moore textiles displayed in this exhibition feature whimsical subjects seen nowhere else in his work – sea creatures, twisting caterpillars and piano keys stretching into infinity – as well as figure studies which can be linked to some of his sculptures .

www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

A new display of luxury Scottish knitwear including pieces from Queene and Belle, Pringle of Scotland, Ingrid Tait (of Tait and Style) and other international fashion firms.

http://www.nms.ac.uk/hipknits.aspx

Costume Colloquium, an international interdisciplinary symposium on historical dress, costume for performance and contemporary fashion is to be held in Florence and based around the work of Janet Arnold – dress historian, artist, fashion designer and teacher - who pioneered research into the cut and construction of clothes from the 16th to the early 20th century and had many connections with Florence. The symposium will include papers, demonstrations, tours and excursions - both in and out of town – to Italian venues crucial to the study of dress history.

http://www.costume-textiles.com/index.htm