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The next At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed online event is coming up! Sunday, June 29 is all about "Textiles from Ulster, Ireland, c.1830-1914"! 🇮🇪

Speakers:
☘️ Valerie Wilson - Berlin Wool Work: charting Needlework History in the Nineteenth Century
☘️ Lynn Hulse - Art Embroidery and the Celtic Revival in Ireland
☘️ Fiona McKelvie - Irish Linen: an International Success Story

Read more and register for free: eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-wit?

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #19thCentury #History #Ireland #Needlework @historikerinnen @histodons

EventbriteAt Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed - 29 June 2025 - 2.00pm BSTOur June ‘At home’ will explore dress and textiles originating from or made in the province of Ulster in the long nineteenth century.

Remarkable craft talent love history - free nyt article - Four Generations of #Quilts Come Out of the Family ‘Treasure Chest’ The work of the #AfricanAmerican #quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the #thread of the family tradition, will be on view at the #Berkeley Art #Museum. nytimes.com/2025/05/31/arts/de #quilt #needlework #crafts

Clockwise from left: Bara Byrd-Stewart with her mother, Sherry Byrd, and her grandmother Laverne Brackens, who is still sewing at 98.
The New York Times · Four Generations of Quilts Come Out of the Family ‘Treasure Chest’By Jori Finkel