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The Textile Arts Museum (French Musée des Tissus) is a museum in the city of Lyon, France. Located in two 18th century hôtels particuliers of Lyon's 2nd arrondissement , the institution consists in two distinct collections: the textiles collection and the decorative arts collection.
Helen Louise Allen (1902 - August 14, 1968) was a nationally known American textile historian and collector. [1] A pioneer in the field of material culture, she was among the first in her area of study to approach textile objects as cultural records through which human nature and history could be better understood.
The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. [1] Founded in 1977, the museum is the first in the United States devoted solely to quilts and textiles as an art form. [ 2 ]
The Great Lakes Quilt Center is the Michigan State University Museum’s center for quilt-related research, education, and exhibition activities. [1] While the museum, established in 1857, [2] has long held significant collections, its focus of activities on quilt scholarship and education began with the launch of the Michigan Quilt Project at the museum in 1984 [citation needed].
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. [1] At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings. [1]
The Textile Museum was established in 1925 by George Hewitt Myers, a rug and textile collector and connoisseur — and was formerly housed in the building his family called home. At the time of its founding, the museum's collection included 275 rugs and sixty related textiles, a collection Myers had built since the 1890s.
As it turns out, a Magic Eraser is a surprising fix for lint removal. Dampen the sponge and lightly rub the clothing or fabric in a circular motion, and you'll be quickly be lint-free.
In 1958, Caroline Stevens Rogers, a member of a textile industry family and a hand weaver and dyer, came into possession of her father’s collection of over 50 spinning wheels in various stages of collapse and a truck load of heavy beams (the disassembled parts of antique hand looms) as well as dozens of reels, winders, skarnes, riddles, and niddy-noddies. [3]