November 2017
DATS Conference 2017
Dress and Biography: Exploring Narratives Through Clothing Booking now open! This years conference will be taking place at Royal Pavilion & Museums and the University of Brighton, 23–24 November 2017 and will coincide with the Gluck: Art and Identity…
Find out more »Celebrating Britains Transport Textile – Symposium
Symposium organised by London Transport Museum Description What is moquette? Unobtrusive but effective, we take it for granted, yet it’s literally woven into the fabric of our daily lives. It is the durable, woollen seating material used on the Underground,…
Find out more »April 2018
DATS visit to ARTIST TEXTILES Picasso to Warhol
New Lanark World Heritage Site and Visitor Centre has kindly offered DATS members a group package for entry to the exhibition ARTIST TEXTILES Picasso to Warhol, and a textile tour on the afternoon of Friday 6th April. This is a…
Find out more »The Textile Society – Manchester Antique Textile Fair
Manchester Antique & Vintage Textile Fair 2018 Sun 15th April 2018 10.00 am – 4.30 pm Armitage Centre, Fallowfield, Manchester M14 6HE Visit the fair for a fantastic range of vintage fashion, antique textiles and costume sourced from around the…
Find out more »DATS Woven Cloth Indentification: Day 1
The DATS committee are pleased to announce two workshops on woven cloth identification and analysis with Mary Schoeser and Kate Wigley (of the School of Textiles). The workshops will be held at the Clothworkers’ Centre for the Study and…
Find out more »May 2018
DATS Woven Cloth Identification: Day 2
The DATS committee are pleased to announce two workshops on woven cloth identification and analysis with Mary Schoeser and Kate Wigley (of the School of Textiles). The workshops will be held at the Clothworkers’ Centre for the Study and…
Find out more »ICON Textile Group Annual Forum: Nature of Textiles
The 2018 ICON Textile Group’s annual Forum theme is ‘textiles and nature’ The day will include an opportunity to see the newly redisplayed Museum of London ‘Pleasure Gardens’ exhibit, refreshments, lunch and a chance to win some charity raffle prizes.…
Find out more »July 2018
The Costume Society: Celebrating Patterns of Fashion
In lieu of their annual conference, the Costume Society will be holding an AGM on Saturday July 7 at London College of Fashion, John Princes Street (off Oxford Street) London. The day will feature three talks celebrating Patterns of Fashion,…
Find out more »October 2019
DATS Scotland meet-up
We’d like to invite DATS members for private tours of two new Edinburgh fashion and textile exhibitions – Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk at the National Museum of Scotland and Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life…
Find out more »November 2019
DATS 2019 Conference
DATS Conference 2019 We are pleased to announce that our postponed conference is being held at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, on the 28th and 29th November, kindly hosted by Ruth Battersby Tooke from the Norfolk Museum Services. A…
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