The Textile Conservation Centre

  1. Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice

    6th May 2010

     Textile Conservation: Advances  in Practice, edited by former TCC Senior Lecturer Frances Lennard and Patricia Ewer has been published by Butterworth Heinemann.

  2. Shetland Lace Knitting PhD Studentship

    6th May 2010

    Glasgow University's Department of History has announced a 3 year, fully funded studentship on 'The History of Lace Knitting in Shetland'.  This is funded through a 3 year AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme and is in partnership with Shetland Museum and Archives.

    For more information consult the Glasgow University website - by following this link.

     

     

  3. Future for the Textile Conservation Centre's work at Glasgow University

    24th March 2010

    Preserving the fabric of the nation’s treasures for future generations, a new textile conservation centre is to be established at the University of Glasgow.

    The Textile Conservation Centre Foundation (TCCF) and the University of Glasgow have agreed to found the new teaching and research facility – the only resource of its kind in the UK – in the University’s Robertson Building.

  4. Keep watching this space.....

    2nd March 2010

  5. Successful outcomes of TCC tapestry research reported to the sector

    19th February 2010

    A dissemination event took place on 10th February 2010 to mark the end of an inter-disciplinary tapestry monitoring research project undertaken by researchers at the Textile Conservation Centre and the University of Southampton’s School of Engineering Sciences.

  6. Abegg-Stiftung marks Frau Dr Flury-Lemberg's 80th birthday

    10th February 2010

  7. TCC Student Receives Doctorate

    4th January 2010

  8. Update and Happy New Year

    24th December 2009

     Happy New Year from all the former staff of the TCC and from the Trustees of the TCC Foundation.

    Discussions about a future for some of the TCC's work have been continuing: a great deal of activity has taken place during November and December.  We had hoped to be able to make an announcement about this before Christmas, but the timing of various meetings means that we will not be in a position to do so until mid January.

  9. Fabulous Fibres exhibition featuring objects conserved by TCC students

    24th December 2009

    Fabulous Fibres – an ethnobotanical exhibition at Haslemere Museum

    1 December 2009 - 9 January 2010

  10. Discussions continue whilst achievements are celebrated

    29th September 2009

    The TCC Foundation continues to have discussions with several organisations about the possibility of some aspects of the TCC's work being revived elsewhere after the Centre is closed by the University of Southampton on 31st October 2009.

  11. TCC Students Graduate 2009

    23rd July 2009

    The penultimate cohort of TCC students graduated on 23rd July. The ceremony was presided over by the University of Southampton's Vice-Chancellor Professor Bill Wakeham and was held at the Turner Sims Concert Hall on the University's main, Highfield, campus. After the ceremony the TCC staff then held a celebratory reception for the students and their guests.