IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING THE STRUCTURES OF
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL TEXTILES:
PART 1
Practical information
17-28 May 2021
Each of these courses will take place over two weeks, with a clear weekend in between, which can be used to visit some of the local museums. There will be a maximum of 10 participants. We shall give you each a certificate on completion of the Part 1 session.
Teaching hours will be Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5.30 pm with a break for lunch. We will provide tea, coffee and biscuits but you will need to get lunch. There are lots of cafes and sandwich shops within easy walking distance and you are welcome to eat your lunch in the Loft. Participants will be welcome to arrive from 9 am and stay until 6 pm for informal discussion, completion of work, etc. We are planning to include a half-day trip to the Industrial Museum in Halifax, to look at looms.
Contact details for tutors
Hero Granger-Taylor, hero@granger-taylor.com
home + 44 (0)20 7387 1731, mobile +44 (0)7952 216602
Ruth Gilbert, plainweave879@btinternet.com
home +44 (0)1484 843879, mobile +44 (0)7807303044
Please address all e-mails to both of us. If you receive no answer, please write again, or telephone.
Cost and Payment
The cost for the two week course is expected to be £300. Participants with a UK bank account are asked to send a cheque made out to the Early Textiles Study Group to our Treasurer: Rosalind Janssen, at 114 Paramount Court, University Street, London WC1E 6JW. Participants from abroad will be able to pay us in cash. Receipts will be issued. The price will include textile samples, photocopying, use of reference books, loan of magnifying glasses and other equipment.
Venue
The Loft Space at Britannia Mill, Britannia Road, Slaithwaite, HD7 5HE
Slaithwaite (sometimes pronounced Slawit) is a village in the Colne Valley, West Yorkshire, which has historically been the home of a number of textile mills (woollen and worsted). It still has some textile firms, Spa Mill (Spectrum Yarns) who spin knitting yarn, Global Worsted who spin for the various worsted weavers in Huddersfield, and Marling and Evans, high-end commission weavers. Britannia Mill is in the centre of the village. The Loft Space is on the first floor, above the Antiques Warehouse. There is no lift, but there is a loo on the same floor.
Getting to Slaithwaite by train
Slaithwaite railway station (see map) is on the Transpennine Manchester-Leeds line. There is an hourly service from Manchester Piccadilly, but from Leeds you must change in Huddersfield. Travelling from London, it is easiest to depart from London Euston and change in Manchester Piccadilly. There is a good bus service along the Colne Valley (181, 183, 184, 185). The area is very hilly and a car could be useful. There is ample free parking not far from Britannia Mill (see map).
Weather and clothing
There is no need for any formal clothing. Layers are recommended for indoors and for outdoors a good raincoat is a must and walking boots could be useful. Yorkshire is nearly always cooler than the south of England and in March there can still be snow.
Slaithwaite More on https://www.facebook.com/theloftspaceBritanniaMills/
The first session of ETSG Structures Course Part 2
Anyone who has completed our Part 1 will be eligible to join a Part 2 session. The first of these is provisionally fixed for late summer 2021. It will take place in London, at the School of Historical Dress - http://theschoolofhistoricaldress.org.uk/ . The tutors will be Sophie Desrosiers and Lisa Monnas.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL TEXTILES:
PART 1
Practical information
17-28 May 2021
Each of these courses will take place over two weeks, with a clear weekend in between, which can be used to visit some of the local museums. There will be a maximum of 10 participants. We shall give you each a certificate on completion of the Part 1 session.
Teaching hours will be Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5.30 pm with a break for lunch. We will provide tea, coffee and biscuits but you will need to get lunch. There are lots of cafes and sandwich shops within easy walking distance and you are welcome to eat your lunch in the Loft. Participants will be welcome to arrive from 9 am and stay until 6 pm for informal discussion, completion of work, etc. We are planning to include a half-day trip to the Industrial Museum in Halifax, to look at looms.
Contact details for tutors
Hero Granger-Taylor, hero@granger-taylor.com
home + 44 (0)20 7387 1731, mobile +44 (0)7952 216602
Ruth Gilbert, plainweave879@btinternet.com
home +44 (0)1484 843879, mobile +44 (0)7807303044
Please address all e-mails to both of us. If you receive no answer, please write again, or telephone.
Cost and Payment
The cost for the two week course is expected to be £300. Participants with a UK bank account are asked to send a cheque made out to the Early Textiles Study Group to our Treasurer: Rosalind Janssen, at 114 Paramount Court, University Street, London WC1E 6JW. Participants from abroad will be able to pay us in cash. Receipts will be issued. The price will include textile samples, photocopying, use of reference books, loan of magnifying glasses and other equipment.
Venue
The Loft Space at Britannia Mill, Britannia Road, Slaithwaite, HD7 5HE
Slaithwaite (sometimes pronounced Slawit) is a village in the Colne Valley, West Yorkshire, which has historically been the home of a number of textile mills (woollen and worsted). It still has some textile firms, Spa Mill (Spectrum Yarns) who spin knitting yarn, Global Worsted who spin for the various worsted weavers in Huddersfield, and Marling and Evans, high-end commission weavers. Britannia Mill is in the centre of the village. The Loft Space is on the first floor, above the Antiques Warehouse. There is no lift, but there is a loo on the same floor.
Getting to Slaithwaite by train
Slaithwaite railway station (see map) is on the Transpennine Manchester-Leeds line. There is an hourly service from Manchester Piccadilly, but from Leeds you must change in Huddersfield. Travelling from London, it is easiest to depart from London Euston and change in Manchester Piccadilly. There is a good bus service along the Colne Valley (181, 183, 184, 185). The area is very hilly and a car could be useful. There is ample free parking not far from Britannia Mill (see map).
Weather and clothing
There is no need for any formal clothing. Layers are recommended for indoors and for outdoors a good raincoat is a must and walking boots could be useful. Yorkshire is nearly always cooler than the south of England and in March there can still be snow.
Slaithwaite More on https://www.facebook.com/theloftspaceBritanniaMills/
The first session of ETSG Structures Course Part 2
Anyone who has completed our Part 1 will be eligible to join a Part 2 session. The first of these is provisionally fixed for late summer 2021. It will take place in London, at the School of Historical Dress - http://theschoolofhistoricaldress.org.uk/ . The tutors will be Sophie Desrosiers and Lisa Monnas.