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Last week's unveiling of Althea McNish's Blue Plaque at West Green Road in #Haringey coincided with what would have been her 99th birthday 🎉 Rose Sinclair, co-curator of 'Althea McNish: Colour is Mine' spoke at the event @Dorcasstories Images: Lewis Patrick & PAL Associates

Another highly-worked and symbolic garment from Tampere, Finland, this time from the excellent Lenin Museum. According to the label, this sweater belonged to an interwar political prisoner in the former Hameenlinna prison. The visible mending blew me away. lenin.fi/en/a-visit-to-…

A reminder about this call …Textile Intersections, Lboro in London Sept 2023 ❤️ Deadline for submissions is 21st May. Excited to hear about emerging, new snd continuing work in the biomaterials and sustainable textiles space. textile-intersections.com/call-for-paper…

#ForArtHistory2023 Day 2 Thur 13th April First four speakers in our session exploring narratives of practice & making textiles & storytelling across the globe forarthistory.org.uk/participatory-… #AAHAnnualConference #Textiles #Cloth #ArtHistory #Participatory #Neeedlework #heritage

This 🌟 session at #ForArtHistory2023 #AnnualConference all day session on Thur 13th April and is co-convened by Rose Sinclair of @Dorcastories #DrEmmaShercliffe & #DrLornaDillon forarthistory.org.uk/participatory-… #AAHAnnualConference #Textiles #Cloth #Neeedlework #heritage

Fashion Fictions events in #Nottingham: pop-up workshop (15 April) and conversation evening (19 April) - join us! mailchi.mp/ntu/events-thi…

FREE WORKSHOP! Drop in to our pop-up #FashionFictions workshop at @wearenonsuch in #Nottingham on Sat 15 April to experience life in 3 fictional fashion worlds – or invent your own! A #FashionFictionsWorldTour event - find out more at fashionfictions.org/worldtour/ #WhatsOnInNottingham

The Call for Papers for the 2023 special issue of Scope: Fashion closes 30 April. The theme is Ara Honohono|Connecting Pathways, reflecting the ways in which fashion operates and is practiced. Check out submission guidelines thescopes.org/journal/

Althea McNish Colour is Mine ‘In Conversation’ Tickets, Thu 20 Apr 2023 at 17:00 ⁦@WhitworthArt⁩ with #WinstonBranch and #Dominique Heyse-Moore. eventbrite.co.uk/e/althea-mcnis…

V&A · V&A Teacher Cpd In Person: Caribbean Connections In Design ⁦@iamsharonmorgan⁩ ⁦@NSEAD1⁩ ⁦@InfoWylie⁩ ⁦@CraftsCouncilUK⁩ ⁦@hardy_alison⁩ ⁦@DTassoc⁩ vam.ac.uk/event/wOGqb9aJ…

@e_m_igoe Lovely pics! Looks like a fab time 😃

Call for papers!! Fashion & Textiles academics working with plastics in any way, come and share your work with us at the PlasticsFuture conference. University of Portsmouth 20th to 22nd June. DM with any questions. #plasticsfuture port.ac.uk/news-events-an…

DMU School of Fashion and Textiles we are delighted to host SDC (Society of Dyers and Colourists) Midlands Region AGM & Textiles: Sustainable Futures' Lectures on Wednesday 22nd March.​sdc.org.uk/sdc-midlands-r…

@gracepetrie in Wellington tonight…soooooooo blimin inspiring and hopeful…thank you!!

The Design Research Society is pleased to announce that DRS2024, the biennial conference of the Society, will take place in June 2024 in Boston, hosted by Northeastern University. More details on the 2024 conference, including dates and the call for papers, are forthcoming.

1969, New York, 5th Ave. Gary Blackman bought this Formfit Rogers nightdress with @EmilioPucci design as a gift for his wife, Margery. Get the story of how it ended up @OtagoMuseum in Context #43, delivered to CTANZ members and in libraries. Photo: Tūhura Otago Museum Collection

"how the world is experienced from other species’ point of view..." @gavinmlam on Ed Yong's new book wildones.substack.com/p/wild-ones-73…

We’re hiring! Come and join this fabulous Fashion Design team and students. 0.6 permanent post - Lecturer in Cultural Studies (Fashion) vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/de…

Received my new copy of #TheTextileReader by #ProfJessicaHemmings (2nd Ed) proud to be in such company with other contributors, my chapter ‘Tracing back to trace forwards - what does it mean/take to be a Black textile designer #textiles #designresearch bloomsbury.com/uk/textile-rea…