EXHIBITIONS AT THE ARCHIVE GALLERY - 2008
19 July - 16 August ADVANCED TEXTILE STUDENTS - MORLEY COLLEGE, LONDON
The Archive has been working with students since January to use the collections as inspiration for new work.
13 September - 8 November BEADWORKERS GUILD
Members of the Guild have taken up the challenge of creating new work inspired by the Archive's collections. We look forward to displaying their imaginative pieces amongst the exhibits in the Gallery.
The Archive’s team welcomes enquiries from Individuals and groups who would like to establish links with the Warner Textile Archive and develop ideas for creative projects within East Anglia. Please telephone 01376 557803 or email warner.archives@braintree.gov.uk.
PAST PROJECTS
In 2006 the team worked closely with the Braintree Writers Group. They initially visited the Archive out of curiosity but left inspired and between them produced a creative writing project based upon the collections within the store, the Archive’s history and the building itself.
During 2006 and 2007 the team worked very closely with East Anglia members of the Embroiderers Guild on the Stitches at the Archive project, which cumulated in an exhibition in the Gallery in September and October 2007. Guild members took inspiration for new work from all the collections within the Archive from printing blocks to ledgers, from woven scraps to lengths of printed fabric. Many of the participants had never exhibited their work before. To encourage them and get the creative energy flowing no restrictions were placed on the embroiderers except that they were encouraged to abandon any thought of framing their work in the traditional manner and to think instead of ‘floating’, ‘wrapping’, ‘hiding’ or ‘standing’ as methods of displaying their work.
