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New York, New York
It’s been well over a month since I got back from America, so long in fact that I am currently writing from Canada. I could easily write blog, after blog, after blog on how incredible the holiday was,...
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster, PA is home to a large Amish community. One of the old farm houses has been preserved to replicate Amish family life. The bedrooms show a range of clothes and the guide explained how styles...
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Luray, VA
Virginia was the highlight of the trip for me! One of our stops was at the Luray Caverns. This is one of many series of caves in the Shenandoah National Park. The site is made up of the caves, a local...
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Bata Shoe Museum
Last year when working at The Victoria and Albert Museum I spent a couple of days helping with prep work for “Shoes: Pleasure and Pain” which is opening today back in London. One of the lenders to this...
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Black Creek Pioneer Village
Black Creek Pioneer Village is a living history museum situated about 30km north of downtown Toronto. I chose to go on the weekend of “Quilts at the Creek” – a display from local Ontario quilting...
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Quebec Museum of Costume and Textiles
Entrance to the museum. I can’t remember exactly how much it was to go it, but in wasn’t expensive…maybe $6 or $7 for a student (about £3.50). The girl on the counter gave me a brief history of the...
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1920s…again
Earlier this year some friends and I attended a “Gatsby Club” party…dress here and here. This time around I went for a slightly different look. Over the summer I took a pattern off a 1924 Madeleine...
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Potential Closure of Lyon Textile Museum
There is a petition going round to object to the closure of the Lyon Textile Museum, a place which documents the historically significant Lyon silk industry. A rough translation, by Google, summaries...
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V&A Day
Spending a couple of hours at the Victoria and Albert Museum is something that I try and do a few times a year. Often this is to see special exhibitions, but recently I had a wander round the free...
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Star Lace
I have finally completed the final conservation projects of my MPhil. That was a rather terrifying sentence to say. The last few weeks have been very busy completing reports and preparing for a...
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