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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: March 2014
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Tuesday, 18 March 2014. 175th Anniversary Quilt: March 2014 Update. At last, all 25 blocks have been stitched together! Six members of the group met up at the Quilter’s Trading Post on 1. March, armed with pins, tape measures and sewing machines, ready to put the blocks together. The Quilter’s Trading Post is an Aladdin’s cave of quilting fabrics, notions and pure inspiration for the creative quilter! Inside the Quilter’s Trading Post. March and left our piec...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: A Textile Story by Grace Woodger
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Sunday, 31 May 2015. A Textile Story by Grace Woodger. Frances exclaimed. 'What ever have you done? Mildred looked up from the drawing room floor, gesturing helplessly to the quilt on the ground before her. One corner was badly burned, a good few inches of fabric eaten away, and the surrounding squares were singed and stained with soot. Grandmother's quilt, Fannie. Look at it. Mother will never forgive me.'. How ever did it happen? Said Frances, incredulous.
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: April 2015
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Thursday, 2 April 2015. Suffragette Dress by Lucy Ella Hawkins. At the Dressing/Undressing the Victorians: Reading Clothes in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Contexts. Conference at the University of Chester (28th March 2015), Fiona McGrath’s paper on ‘Discourses of Fashion: Articulating a Subversive Feminist Voice through Clothing at the fin de siècle. However, a more restrained type of Edwardian dress was worn by some women’s suffrage leaders in a deliber...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: Events
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Textile Stories/ Quilt Stories. A Study Day at the University of Chester. RICS Building, Riverside Campus. Saturday 25th April 2015, 9.30am -4.30pm. The third Textile Study Day will be devoted to the stories told by quilts. Our speakers. Christine Garwood (Textile Artist), ‘Painting With Stitches’. Jacqui Hyman (Textile Restoration Studio) ‘Conserving Quilts’. Jacqui is a textile historian and conservationist. She runs the Textile Restoration Studio:. At the ...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: Reading Testament of Youth
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Monday, 2 March 2015. Reading Testament of Youth. The Drama of Costume Reading Group. Saturday 21st February 2015. The fourth meeting of the ‘Drama of Costume’ Reading Group met to discuss Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth. Vera Brittain in her V.A.D. uniform during WWI. Roland Leighton, Vera Brittain’s fiancé, killed at the front in 1915. Roland Leighton’s grave (photograph taken by Jackie Davies). Here Alicia Vikander plays the role of Vera. One of...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: July 2014
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Sunday, 13 July 2014. Reading Day, 5. The third ‘Drama of Costume’ reading group discussion was held on 5. July We talked about Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre. 1847), and most participants welcomed the opportunity to read the novel (or reread it) and watch some of the many screen adaptations. We considered three well-known screen adaptations of Jane Eyre. Firstly, the 1943 film, Jane Eyre. The costume designer, Michael O’Connor, has helped to conve...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: Patchwork Pieces By Debra Roberts
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Friday, 15 May 2015. Patchwork Pieces By Debra Roberts. The illustrations below show a small collection of patchworks, all works in progress, pieces that remain unfinished. Sourced from Antique Fairs, they hold no personal history or connection. It is what the pieces were originally, that interests me, clothes, furnishings that are no longer useful or fashionable, as pieces of fabric, they are still worth recycling. The scraps of information are frustrating, ...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: February 2014
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Friday, 28 February 2014. The Anniversary Quilt: An Update on Progress. All 25 blocks have been completed – how exciting! We found that having taken a photo, we decided on a slightly different layout, to make it more balanced with predominant colours not being placed next to each other. Our Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Adrian Lee was passing and popped in to see what we were up to! We can’t wait to see how it looks! Thursday, 13 February 2014. W P Frith, Derby Day.
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: The Team
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. I am senior lecturer in English specialising in American Literature and Critical Theory and I teach on the MA Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. I gained my PhD from Keele University (2002) looking at architecture in the novels of Don DeLillo and I currently write about fashion in literature with publications on men’s accessories through to clothing in the Twilight series. Dr Georgina O’Brien Hill. Journal on the work of Ella Hepworth Dixon with Dr Va...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: October 2014
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Sunday, 12 October 2014. The University of Chester’s 175th Anniversary Quilt Unveiled! On 12 September 2014 the unveiling of the quilt took place at the University of Chester to inaugurate the celebration of its 175-year history. The quilters were at last able to see the culmination of a year’s work. The months of planning, designing, discussing, stitching, and putting together the finished work have resulted in a beautiful community quilt. Fiona Roberts and ...
