Blanket Technologies: Capturing Heritage Textile Techniques
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Image: Indigo-dyed Welsh Blanket, on loan from Jane Beck
Led by Professor Judith Mottram, this project explores colour and pattern, approaches to recording skills and knowledge at risk, and cultural memory through heritage textile technologies.
The resulting exhibition Pattern / Patrwn (26 September-20 December 2019/ 5 March-20 December 2020) curated by Sandra Kemp was a series of displays of Welsh Blankets in The Ruskin from the collection of Jane Beck, and provides a backdrop to reconsidering the role of regional identity, tourism and functionality attributed to high value textiles.
