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Talking Textiles – Silks from Spitalfields to East Anglia with Mary Schoeser

20 April 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
£8
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Join textile historian, Mary Schoeser, for a fascinating insight into the world of silk weaving.

Mary Schoeser, one of the leading authorities in the field of textiles and Huguenot silk weaving, will be our main speaker for the Talking Textiles lecture series. Her talk will cover 200 hundred years and will feature designs by James Leman (c.1688-1745) and Anna Maria Garthwaite (1689/90-1763), together with the work of later weavers, among them members of the Vanner, Walters, Warner and Wilson families, who brought silk weaving to East Anglia.

Hosted by the Huguenot Museum in Rochester.

If this talk is sold out and you are interested in attending, please email team@huguenotsofspitalfields.org for the next date.

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