THE TEXTILES COLLECTION ONLINE
02.04.2006 News
Farnham (United Kingdom) - Arts and Humanities Research Council Visual Arts
announced the release of a major new resource from The Textiles
Collection at the University College for the Creative Arts at
Canterbury, England. The Textiles Collection contains over 3000
artefacts ranging from Coptic textiles dating from 800 1000 AD through
to British woollen cloths, Kashmir shawls, African strip weaving and
Scandinavian furnishing fabrics from 1950 to 1990. The Textiles
Collection can serve as an educational resource for practitioners and
historians and as a foundation for new research. Now, in a digital
form, the resource illustrates the visual and tactile subtleties of
textiles in a two-dimensional environment. Each image has been
carefully created to describe the particular qualities of its subject
expressing the fold and drape of a textile; communicating the fibre,
structure and finish of woven cloths; and illustrating pattern, repeat
and scale in printed fabrics.
For further information please contact:
Sheila Harvey
The Textiles Collection
University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham
Falkner Road
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DS
T: +44 1252 892778
F: +44 1252 892927
E: smharvey@ucreative.ac.uk
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