[h-cost] Looking for textile, costume & needlework museums

[Claire Clarke]

Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:15:03 -0700
From: "Ginni Morgan" 
To: "Historical Costume" 
Subject: [h-cost] Looking for textile, costume & needlework museums
near Leeds, Durham or York
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Greetings, everyone~

Longtime lurker delurking here.  

I have a good friend who is traveling to England about two weeks from now.
She will be visiting the area around York, Durham and Leeds and is looking
for textile, costume and/or needlework museums and/or collections in that
general part of England.  Her specific area of interest is pre-1650
embroidery in any form (garments, hangings, book covers, etc.), particularly
Elizabethan needlework.  Does anyone know of such places in that area?  Any
recommendations?  Do they allow photographs?

Also, someone once told her about a museum named the Nottingham Textile &
Costume Museum which supposedly had a very large collection of Elizabethan
embroideries, etc.  However, this museum supposedly closed shortly after her
informant visited it.  She thought it was located on Castle Road in
Nottingham.  We have found a mention of the museum on a "what to see in
Nottingham" website and that seems to indicate the museum is currently open.
Does anyone know anything about this one?  

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Ginni Morgan
aka Gwenhwyfaer


--
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If she is willing to go as far south as Nottingham then she might like to
try Hardwick Hall. This is an Elizabethan house built for Bess of Hardwick,
and is famous for its embroideries, many supposedly by Bess herself. I went
there once as a child, long before I had more than a general interest in
things historical, and remember being rather impressed. 

Incidentally I later discovered that my great grandmother worked there very
briefly as a domestic servant (late Edwardian times) and something
unpleasant caused her to leave. She would never say what, but refused to go
there again ever. 

Angharad

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[h-cost] Looking for textile, costume & needlework museums near Leeds, Durham or York

[Beth and Bob Matney]

I will be leaving for Edinburgh and that area in three weeks 
myself... so definitely interested as well.


First the bad news:

The Durham Cathedral Treasures exhibit area is closed and the 
textiles that were on display (St. Cuthbert) are in storage for an 
indefinite period.


Now the good news:

"The reason for this is that the Cathedral is embarking on a major 
development of its Claustral buildings, which will see the Shop move 
from its current location in the Great Kitchen into the Western 
Undercroft (where the Treasures exhibition used to be).  A new 
sequence of exhibition spaces in which we plan to display many more 
of the Cathedral's collections will be created in the Monks' 
Dormitory and Great Kitchen."


Beth Matney

At 01:00 PM 8/11/2012, you wrote:

Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:15:03 -0700
From: "Ginni Morgan" 

Greetings, everyone~

Longtime lurker delurking here.

I have a good friend who is traveling to England about two weeks 
from now.  She will be visiting the area around York, Durham and 
Leeds and is looking for textile, costume and/or needlework museums 
and/or collections in that general part of England.  Her specific 
area of interest is pre-1650 embroidery in any form (garments, 
hangings, book covers, etc.), particularly Elizabethan 
needlework.  Does anyone know of such places in that area?  Any 
recommendations?  Do they allow photographs?


Also, someone once told her about a museum named the Nottingham 
Textile & Costume Museum which supposedly had a very large 
collection of Elizabethan embroideries, etc.  However, this museum 
supposedly closed shortly after her informant visited it.  She 
thought it was located on Castle Road in Nottingham.  We have found 
a mention of the museum on a "what to see in Nottingham" website and 
that seems to indicate the museum is currently open.  Does anyone 
know anything about this one?


Any assistance would be appreciated.

Ginni Morgan
aka Gwenhwyfaer


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Re: [h-cost] Looking for Cherry Dawson's Stays Instructions

[Aylwen Gardiner-Garden]

I managed to get a full copy of the text but the images were all missing.
*Aylwen Gardiner-Garden*
*
*
*Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy 
*
*Jane Austen Festival Australia* 



On 11 August 2012 18:54, Patricia Dunham  wrote:

> I have just been told that the Wayback copies of the Stays Instructions
> are hacked and unreadable. And indeed they are. BUT, FYI, we have managed
> to pull a complete copy of the text (the illustrations were all vandalized
> and turned into spam-ad-graphics, unfortunately).
>
> If I knew how to get in touch with Ms Dawson, I would offer her webspace
> on our Ravensgard pages for this article or anything else she wanted to put
> back on the web. (we're in the process of creating a
> Steampunk/Victorian/Post-Renaissance page, at Ravensgard.org)
>
> Chimene
>
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
>
> > you might try the Wayback Machine at
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080516072118/http://cherrydawson.com/StaysWorkshop/stays_notes.htm#Choosing
> >
> > Most of the instructions appear to be there, except for the Measuring,
> but if you search for "cherrydawson.com" and poke around some more dates
> besides the above url (May 2008), the measuring ones may turn up???
> >
> > chimene
> >
> > On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Aylwen Gardiner-Garden wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone here have a copy of the instructions from Cherry Dawson's
> stays
> >> workshop? Its now offline but I'd be very keen to read it.
> >> Many thanks,
> >> Aylwen
>
>
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Re: [h-cost] Looking for Cherry Dawson's Stays Instructions

[Patricia Dunham]

I have just been told that the Wayback copies of the Stays Instructions are 
hacked and unreadable. And indeed they are. BUT, FYI, we have managed to pull a 
complete copy of the text (the illustrations were all vandalized and turned 
into spam-ad-graphics, unfortunately). 

If I knew how to get in touch with Ms Dawson, I would offer her webspace on our 
Ravensgard pages for this article or anything else she wanted to put back on 
the web. (we're in the process of creating a 
Steampunk/Victorian/Post-Renaissance page, at Ravensgard.org)

Chimene

On Aug 3, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:

> you might try the Wayback Machine at  
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080516072118/http://cherrydawson.com/StaysWorkshop/stays_notes.htm#Choosing
>  
> 
> Most of the instructions appear to be there, except for the Measuring, but if 
> you search for "cherrydawson.com" and poke around some more dates besides the 
> above url (May 2008), the measuring ones may turn up???
> 
> chimene
> 
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Aylwen Gardiner-Garden wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone here have a copy of the instructions from Cherry Dawson's stays
>> workshop? Its now offline but I'd be very keen to read it.
>> Many thanks,
>> Aylwen


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