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My book, 100 Things to Wear: Fashion From the Collections of the National Trust (co-authored with the incredible Emma Slocombe) is now available to pre-order on Amazon. I'll be buying all my copies from my local @nationaltrust.bsky.social shop, but this is really hugely exciting to see!
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
Thanks Jonathan - so happy you could write on Ruth Pennyman for it.
Finally reached publication day! Well done @curatorrachel.bsky.social - a great @nationaltrust.bsky.social project to be part of.
Get your copy - shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/women-artist...
A woman holds up a new book called ‘Women Artists & Designers at the National Trust.’ She is in front of a bookcase and is smiling.
Publication day! 📚 A huge to my brilliant colleagues for making this happen, especially Christopher, Dave and Leah in the publications team. 🖼️ It is a joy to have the opportunity to celebrate the women artists, designers and makers from across our places and collections.🏺#nationaltrust
Published tomorrow (though snuck its way into some @nationaltrust.bsky.social shops already)! #womenartists #nationaltrust
A fascinating afternoon with conservator Emma at Calke Abbey, XRF testing two monumental eagles - what are their secrets? #ceramichistory #conservation #curator #research
The aim of the WHN’s 33rd annual conference is to explore & celebrate the challenges & opportunities of uncovering the presence of women within archives, libraries, museums & personal collections.
See the call for papers here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist #CPF
First page of the advert for the funded PhD at York, with the National Trust. Follow the link in the post for full info about the funding.
📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC
wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
This cut paperwork scene was made by sisters Jane and Mary Parminter around 1770-1820. Layers of intricately cut and shaped designs come together to create an amazing dimensional work of art.
#museum30 day 18 - Paper
So pleased you enjoyed it!
Sign within a stately interior, entitled 'The Botanical World of Mary Delany'. Smaller text describes: 'Mary Delany (1700-1788) transformed ordinary materials into extraordinarily beautiful artworks. Created by delicately painting, cutting, and layering paper, her floral 'mosaiks' as she called them, were admired for their scientific accuracy. Starting in her early 70s, Delany created over 900 'mosaiks' in ten years, until failing eyesight forced her to stop working.
One of Mary Delany's paper mosaiks, 'Portlandia Grandiflora', displayed on a white wall, framed by golden pilasters. The text at the bottom is entitled 'Art and Botany'.
Two of Sabine Winn's collages, which were created by cutting out sections of a print and replacing it with fabric. The top image depicts a woman wearing a simple white shift, sitting on a grassy bank. The second image shows a man and a woman walking through a forest, finely dressed in floral material.
Thrilled to have seen 'The Botanical World of Mary Delany' at Beningbrough Hall at last, showcasing many of her beautifully detailed collages. It was also a treat to see 'Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust', including Sabine Winn's collages. Perfect way to start 2025!
Bright orange flowers against a plain black background
Two children arranging fabric flowers on a table, in front of framed collages of flowers
Bright pink flowers and green leaves against a plain black background
Two children look out through a window with wintry sunshine and bare trees silhouetted
Really enjoyed The Botanical World of Mary Delany at Beningbrough Hall - stunning collages, and the kids enjoyed it too #Yorkshire
An exterior shot of Beningbrough Hall. The front of the hall is visible from a slight angle, with the lawn in the foreground. The Hall is bathed in the dying light of a setting sun.
Mary Delany transformed ordinary materials into extraordinary, inspirational artworks. At Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire, discover the The Botanical World of Mary Delaney Exhibition and explore the intricate detail of this new photographic display presented in partnership with the British Museum.
If you know Abbey House Museum in #Leeds but don't yet know that it's under threat of closure (to save a small sum from the hard-pressed council budget) you might like to make your views known here:
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe....
Closing date for comments: 23 January
I’m really sorry to read this!
The public consultation on closing Abbey House Museum is now open. Please consider taking part: museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...
A large earthenware jug made by Wedgwood, painted with a pattern of green and red fruiting holly stems and swirls of purple lustre.
🎄 A very festive jug from the @nationaltrust decorated a century ago with swirly holly and loops of lustre by Louise Powell. 🔔 #merrychristmas #wedgwood #louisepowell #womenartists
Behold the earliest known photo of a snowman!
It was taken in Swansea in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn.
📷 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
#Christmas
A group of pots at one of our properties has been recorded as decorated by Alfred Powell, but are actually by Louise Powell, so I’ve just started working through them as my last task of the week. Louise was a student of calligraphy and this training translates beautifully into ceramic painting.
Found the source image for a plate decorated in 1875 by Rupert Potter (Beatrix’s father) for his children’s nursery, by Harrison Weir from Vere Foster’s Drawing Book O1. The Potters was a creative household and they used these hugely popular books at home together, including on pots.
The best look for Parian I’ve seen. Hew Locke at the British Museum.
This is going to be an incredible resource for museum conservation museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...
Hi can I be added please?
A photograph of a child’s hands making a Christmas decoration from a circle of clay, pressing it with tools, including a clothes peg, to make marks on the surface.
Making Christmas decorations at the Hepworth Wakefield fair. Lots of fun - the opportunity to make stuff is always such a bonus for my two boys and the Hepworth does this brilliantly.
Call for submissions!
*Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook*
Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great!
www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
