Category Archives: Textile Conservation Centre

Textile Conservation Centre moving to Glasgow

News from the University of Glasgow (as passed on to me by their University Rector over dinner this evening):
Preserving the fabric of the nation’s treasures for future generations, a new textile conservation centre is to be established at the University …

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Textile Conservation Centre – update

A very good report from Briony Leyland on the threat to Winchester’s Textile Conservation Centre.
What’s becoming increasingly clear is that the Government are flunking their responsibilities here. Ian Pearson’s answer to a question that Mark asked in Parliament makes …

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Saving the Textile Conservation Centre – a Winchester centre of excellence

One local story that hasn’t received the national coverage that it deserves is the University of Southampton’s plan to close the world-renowned Textile Conservation Centre at the Winchester School of Art.
The Textile Conservation Centre is not just a centre of …

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