ANNE WANNER'S Textiles in History   / institutions
 
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The rich and stimulating collection of world textiles at the University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham has supported the practical study of woven and printed textiles for over forty years.
The Textiles Collection is a working collection, originally established by Ella McLeod. Its over-arching purpose has been to provide real examples that demonstrate the application of a broad range of textile techniques and processes - encouraging students to handle textiles and to respond to their qualities; to question and analyse them as a primary source. The Textiles Collection plays a central role in stimulating creative investigation and supporting students in their understanding of the factors influencing textile design and production.

    
 
       
  AHDS Visual Arts is pleased to announce the release of a major new resource from The Textiles Collection at the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester.
Containing over 3000 artefacts, The Textiles Collection ranges from Coptic textiles dating from 800-1000 AD through to British woollen cloths, Kashmir shawls, African strip weaving and Scandinavian furnishing fabrics from 1950 to 1990.

Linda Brassington, Teaching Fellow 2005-06 and Senior Lecturer in Printed Textiles at the University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham Campus, stresses the importance of The Textiles Collection as an educational resource for practitioners and historians and as a foundation for new research, "This rich and stimulating collection of world textiles has supported the practical study of woven and printed textiles for over forty years."
   Now, in a digital form, the resource illustrates the visual and tactile subtleties of textiles in a two-dimensional environment. Each image has been carefully created to describe the particular qualities of its subject - expressing the fold and drape of a textile; communicating the fibre, structure and finish of woven cloths; and illustrating pattern, repeat and
scale in printed fabrics.

Many notable designers and hand weavers of the twentieth century are represented and with the addition of The Textiles Collection AHDS Visual Arts now has an invaluable catalogue of textile-based resources for research, learning and teaching.


Browse and Search The Textiles Collection at: www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/ST.html
Browse and search the entire AHDS Visual Arts catalogue at: http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk
 
      For more information contact: AHDS Visual Arts
University College for the Creative Arts Farnham Campus
Falkner Road
Farnham GU9 7DS

Tel No: +44 (0) 1252 892723
Fax No: +44 (0) 1252 892913
Email: info@visualarts.ahds.ac.uk
 
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