All week we've been highlighting women artists from our collection, and today we're focusing on one of our most fascinating artists: Lorina Bulwer, a 19thC resident of the Great Yarmouth workhouse 'lunatic' ward. THREAD 🧵 #WomensHistoryMonth

Our next At Home on Sunday 28th March is textiles themed. Bookings are now open on Eventbrite and we invite you all to join us for the afternoon and some #ResearchJoy eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with…

The #CFP for our 3rd season is now live! The theme is 'Looking back: the historicisms, hauntings and heritage of dress.' 👻👗 We welcome abstracts from people at all career stages & offer both 10 and 20 minute slots. Deadline April 8th! sartorialsocietyseries.com #SartorialSociety

A large collection of paisley shawls, embroidered fabrics and other items from the late Tessa Hughes (elephantessa). Oriental and Islamic 4 August. Various estimates Nicholson's Auctions

The govt is considering selling Channel 4 for a quick profit. Since its inception @ 40yrs ago, C4 has been publicly owned, i.e., by you. C4 as it exists is LEGALLY REQUIRED to make shows w small British production cos that take risks & spend £ locally.

4th August 2021 includes the estate of the late Tessa Hughes at John Nicholson's in Haslemere. She traded as Elephantessa and was a very familiar face at textile auctions for many decades. There are some nice early shawl fragments for the collector (the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…)

Buy a Bag campaign - 5 days to go youtu.be/C1zfZyLSAvU via YouTube

Lovely glove-ly. theglovecollection.uk/our-story/abou…

Exciting new pamphlet about Lorina Bulwer out now! Lorina was an inmate at a workhouse 1893-1912 who made colourful and enraged needlework about her imprisonment. Thank you to @colinhynson for bringing the publication to my attention. Get it here: redherringpress.bigcartel.com/product/lorina…

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Design Researchers in Residence – Open Call The Design Museum invites applications from designers and researchers on the theme of 'islands'. Closing date: Monday 19 September 2022 ow.ly/TIUE50JZarZ

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Pages from early 20th-century Sample Book ‘Shades on Feathers’, which displays 143 actual bird feathers of all colours, plus instructions on how to use dyes to achieve the exact colouring mymodernmet.com/shades-on-feat…

We're a small institution with a BIG collection that we want to share with as many people as possible. We'd love to hit 3000 followers by the end of the month, are there any champions of #art, #science or #history that could RT this/follow to help us get there?

Today I went to the Textile Society’s great antique and vintage textile fair and got some treasures! They are a mid-19th-century quilted bag, a 1950s brooch with Scotties, and an embroidered coaster which reads, “A Cup of good Tea Refreshes Me, 1859”

Patricia Frost You too!! What a joy!

I love this sampler in Baltimore Museum of Art’s “Making her Mark,” stitched by Maria de la Luz Letona in 1737 (in Vassar’s collection). Where was it stitched? My theory is Guatemala or Peru, though it could be Equador. But where’re the other 18th-c. samplers from this region? So many questions!

JOB CLAXON! We're currently recruiting a Project Archivist, Archive Assistants, a Lead Cataloguer and Cataloguers for The David Bowie Archive. Deadline: 10 March. More info on the V&A Vacancies pages: vam.ac.uk/vacancies

This neon sign has just been added to the on line sale of Vivienne Westwood's personal wardrobe which closes on 28th.