Textile Material In United Kingdom

Art exhibitions at the end of June

Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe , at the British Museum, Great Russell St, London WC1 from 23rd June to 9th Oct. www.britishmuseum.org.  See preview in Country Life June 22nd

Fresh Air 2011 Contemporary sculpture in the 5-acre riverside garden of David and Lucy Abel-Smith's Cotswold home, Quenington Old Rectory.  It's their 10th Biennale Quenington Sculpture Exhibition, featuring 103 artists, of which 45 are new to the event.  Includes works in a range of media, installations combining sound, textile banners, lettering and garden furniture.  
19 June to 10 July.  www.freshair2011.com

The Queen: Art and Image - exhibition to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, which is being shown in Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and London, bringing together remarkable images of The Queen, spanning 60 years of her reign, some on public display for the first time.  At the National Gallery Complex, Princes Street, Edinburgh from 25 June to 18 Sep.  

John Martin - from apocalyptic visions to epic panoramas , over 50 works celebrating the legacy of one of the greatest artists of the Victorian age.  At the Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, Sheffield from 22 June to 4 Sep.  www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

Robert Tagg : A Retrospective at Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 from 22-26 Jun www.banksidegallery.com

New pots by Ken Matsuzaki , one of the most important contemporary potters working in Japan today, at the Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham, Rutland until  26 June. The recent, devastating earthquake in Japan thankfully did not harm the potter or his family, however every piece of his work was lost and two out of his three kilns were destroyed. By sheer luck however, the Goldmark Gallery had transported 120 of his pots from his studio in Mashiko to the UK just prior to the earthquake. www.modernpots.com

Amazing Egyptians - exploring the customs and traditions surrounding life and death in the land of the Pharaohs through the use of key objects showing the processes involved in preparing a body for the afterlife. At The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle from 2 Jul to 31 Aug.  www.thebowesmuseum.org.

Carole Collet Interview - Fashioning Technology


We hope to nurture imaginative, resourceful designers who have the potential to shift existing design boundaries and re-shape how we live. The course ethos is to approach textile design as a form of industrial design but with a focus on the language and codes inherent to textiles. By exploring key contextual questions to interrogate, critique and propose new design concepts, we invite our designers to engage fully with the challenges of designing for the 21st century. Our curriculum is based around an evolving set of research questions based on five key themes: Smart, Invisible, Sustainable, Ethical and Poetic. 
We are just about to move to a brand new campus and the Textile Futures studio will be a hub to discuss and develop ideas. We integrate academic, commercial and industrial experience into the course curriculum to provide a dynamic and professional learning environment. A two year programme, we combine short and long projects in the first year, all driven by research and innovative approaches to textiles. In the second year, students frame their own research questions to develop their final Master Project. We are rather unusual in our approach and we spend the first few months helping our students to “unlearn” conventions and to introduce a sense of being on a quest, a thirst for experimental work and risk taking. Sometimes risking to fail a project is a more valid in-depth experience that playing safe to get it right. So we try and instill a sense of adventure and play by introducing students to experimental design work. We start by taking our students camping in October in the UK. Students are given a limited range of materials and they have to build their tents and survive the night. That’s one way to learn about the consequences of bad design, if they don’t engineer the tent correctly, they won’t sleep very much. I suppose in the end you could say we are very “hands-on”, we don’t teach by preaching theory, but by curating experiences and deep learning models.

 This project is funded by the Technology Strategy Board and is using our new home at Kings Cross as a case study for adaptation. According to CIBSE weather prediction, we could see a rise of up to 9C by 2080 in London. Hotter summers will have a dramatic impact on our built environment and we are exploring how a design-science iterative methodology can lead to new proposals to adapt our building to cope with high temperature and preserve a level of comfort.

New Scientist

27 SEPTEMBER 1962 AtoZ: a big step forward in textiles In Northern Ireland ... IN 1959 the United Kingdom spent about £1214 million on textile materials for ...

Report of the annual meeting

On the Composition of the Fibre of the Jute-plant, and its use as a Textile Material By Professor Hodges, MI)., FC8. At the Meeting of the Association held ...

ASTM standards on textile materials, (with related information) : specifications, tolerances, methods of testing, definitions and terms

When a textile material is subjected to a stress below that causing rupture, ... In the United Kingdom it is proposed to use the concept of force per unit ...

Medical textiles, proceedings of the International Conference, 24 & 25 August 1999, Bolton UK

Development of a Versatile Antimicrobial Finish for Textile Materials for ... Hygiene Applications S. Rajendran and SC Anand Bolton Institute, Bolton, UK. ...

Handbook of technical textiles

The UK was one of the first forces to introduce such a printed material for combat forces. From the 1960s to the present day the military textiles, ...