Author archive for may

  • IWM’s Civic Banner goes on display at Limerick Museum to celebrate the Easter Uprising 1916

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    The Imperial War Museum in London owns the Civic Banner bearing the coat of arms of Limerick which was confiscated…

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  • “Christ in Glory” – Coventry Cathedral

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    Article in Museums + Heritage on line magazine outlining the impressive cleaning of this great Tapestry. To read this article…

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  • V & A Galleries

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    For the past two years our studio team has worked tirelessly  to conserve the tapestry ‘Moses and Pharoahs Crown’ The tapestry…

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  • 552 square metres of vacuuming

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    For the past four weeks our studio has teamed up with Textile Conservation Ltd to conserve the Christ in Glory in…

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  • An Interesting Find!

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    Recently, we had a guest in the studio who brought in a sampler for May to examine and possibly get…

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  • Student Internship Completed

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    Jamie Robinson, a student on the MPhil Textile Conservation course at the University of Glasgow completed her summer placement here…

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  • Warner Spring Fair

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    May was invited to the Warner Textile Archive Spring Fair on 11 May 2014. She presented a talk on textile…

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  • Liz Trenow Research Visit

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    Local author Liz Trenow contacted me whilst researching her second novel. She wished to conduct some research into textile conservation…

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  • Publication of the long awaited book on Ham House

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    To celebrate 400 years of Ham House Yale University Press has now published ‘Ham House 400 Years of Collecting and…

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  • Visit by Cambridgeshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers

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    On 15 June 2013 we were very pleased to host a visit from members of the Cambridgeshire Guild of Weavers,…

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