Gawthorpe Textiles Collection

Thank you to everyone who came to our stall today a whopping £350 was taken. You can still pop along tomorrow as we have our stall at The Gawthope Hall Victorian Christmas event. Please come along and see us up in the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection exhibition area. We have lots of Christmas gifts. Please bring CASH as it's much easier for us. Please also support Friends of Gawthorpe as they have a Name the Teddy game, quilt raffle and lots of handmade items on their stall too. 🎄🎅❄️🌲

to Burnley College A Level Student winning local fashion competition.

Finlay Maguire, 17 from Bacup, won the prestigious Re:Fashion Challenge, a collaborative project organised by Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, UCLan and the British Textile Biennial.

Finlay created sustainable and high fashion outfits with re-used garments aiming to progress the fashion industry towards a zero-waste future.

COP 28 is here which gives Students and Staff the chance to share their creative ways to contribute to a sustainable future through exciting activities - the exact path Finlay has taken!

We're extremely passionate about our Lancashire heritage and the area's rich textile past.

Today is the perfect time to celebrate this history and look forward to exciting plans for the collection as we enter our next chapter.

Happy Lancashire Day! 🌹

Snowboarding Penguins, knitting mice, a Giraffe with a top hat...yes you can buy all these items at fabulous prices on our stall at Gawthope Hall Victorian Christmas Weekend Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd December 10.30 am to 3.30pm. If you have any handmade items you'd like to donate for us to raise funds for Gawthope Textiles Collection please call Christina Cope 07757437022.

Enjoy the hall trimmed for the festive season. All visitors pay entry to the hall ( Last entry is 3.00pm )🙏 CASH PREFERRED if you want to buy items.

Having a brand new, shiny workspace is great, but without furniture it's a bit impractical.

We were advised to get in touch with The Senator Group in Burnley, which works with charities, schools and small business to donate products via their ‘Sustain Wish List’ initiative.

And we're so glad we did!

This week we took delivery of 28 stacker chairs, 6 tables, 6 office chairs and a wooden table, all in fantastic condition.

It has saved the charity a lot of money and we cannot thank them enough.

Here's two of our lovely volunteers, Jill and Vickie making use of the tables to explore some stunning hat boxes.

We had a very heavy box today that needed dividing into two and when we opened it up it was full of some amazing buttons and buckles...

It got us talking about our own memories of the button tin at grandparents’ houses.

As well as nostalgia it also sparked a conversation about a fear of buttons - which a couple of members of our team appear to have!

We’d love to hear any of your button tin memories - and also if you share the fear!

We're embarking on an exciting new chapter for the collection!

Yes, we will still be prevalent at National Trust Gawthorpe Hall but our day to day activities will now run from the newly refurbished mill Northlight Estates Northlight Industries

We're really optimistic about the opportunities the move opens to us - but first - unboxing!

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has helped make this mammoth task possible!

You can read the full story below and we'll keep you updated on our next steps.

Move to breathe new life into Burnley textiles collection | LBV Hub Burnley’s Gawthorpe Textiles Collection is on the move to ensure the legacy left by Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth MBE lives on for future generations. A collection of over 30,000 textile and craft items that has been housed at Gawthorpe Hall for more tha

A very busy day today unloading the last of our costume collection onto the brand new racking at our new home of Northlight in Brierfield. Lots of hard work ahead of us to get all 30,000 items in the collection safely put away in the right places!

Day 4 of the move. Items from our costume store at Gawthope Hall were safely transported to our new facility at Northlight Mill, Brierfield. Each item has been carefully packed prior to the move and it's logged leaving and recorded when it arrives. It's a huge undertaking. Here are a few photos from today.

🎀 We should have had a red ribbon to cut in celebration of Rachel Terry our Collections Manager! She has lead the packing & logistics of our move. Here she is placing the first boxes on our swanky new racking system. We still have a lot of items to come to Northlight, our new home, but it's going well so far! Costume moving tomorrow....yay! 🎀

1st day of our epic move of around 30,OOO items including quilts, lace, embroidery, costumes, hats, shoes, in fact our whole archives from Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. We are moving to bigger rooms with better climate conditions to our newly renovated premises in an old Textile mill (was Smith and Nephews) Northlight Industries, Brierfield.

Packing these lovely embroideries, thought to have been worked by Rachel Kay- Shuttleworth. Very poignant to rediscover these so close to Rembrance day. Both her brothers were killed in the First World War, and the estate was eventually to pass to a nephew who died in the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.

More lovely items being packed up today sorry we didn't take more photos

Spider 🕷️ brooch and a Scorpion 🦂 belt were amongst the items we found today that needed special attention with acid free tissue paper as we pack everything carefully for the removal men next week.

Beautiful rainbow 🌈 today at Gawthope Hall.

🎅Gawthorpe Hall's Victorian Christmas weekend Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 December!
See the Hall decorated with Christmas trees, holly and ivy.
Enjoy festive music from the Crickmore:Crewe
Visit the housekeeper in the Victorian Kitchen.
Have a go at Christmas crafts for children and visit Father Christmas. Pre-book by phoning 01282 771004.
Christmas Stalls by Friends of Gawthorpe and Gawthorpe Textiles Collection filled with handmade decorations. Please bring some cash for these stalls🙏
Plus hot drinks and snacks from Coffee Vintage Co

All details here on our What's On page https://events.apps.lancashire.gov.uk/w/webpage/event-details?eventid=178245

Admission is £6/£4 adults, under 16's free (please note all visitors pay admission for this special opening of the Hall, including National Trust members).

Monkey head, Silver Swan and floral parasols just another wonderful day at Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. Curator Rachel Terry and volunteer Christina Cope were carefully packing parasols ready for them to be moved with the rest of the archives to the newly renovated Northlight Industries Mill (formerly Smith & Nephews) Brierfield. Some of the catalogue needed updating so we were able to add the monkey face handle, silver swan with garnet eyes and the floral parasol.

We're running FREE workshops in November for adults at Burnley Mechanics Theatre

If you've got an old jacket that needs some pizzazz or perhaps want to make a memory cushion from the jumper of a loved one, come along and join us!

Pre-booking is required, so if you'd like to reserve your spot, please email [email protected]

We'd love to see you there!

Lancashire Textile Gallery Launch hosted by Amber Butchart 🟡

As part of BTB23 we’re delighted to host the launch of The Lancashire Textile Gallery.

The Lancashire Textile Gallery is a long term collaboration between Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, the University of Central Lancashire and Super Slow Way / British Textile Biennial, with contributions from museums and archives across Lancashire funded by the Heritage Fund as part of their Digital Skills for Heritage initiative.

At this online launch you’ll be introduced to the site by Gawthorpe Textile Collection Curator Rachel Midgley and hear from some of the artists and academics who have been commissioned to make work in response to the collections.

More information and free tickets available on our website https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lancashire-textile-gallery-online-launch-hosted-by-amber-butchart-tickets-739450074077?aff=erelpanelorg 🔗

📸 Turkey Red floral print from the Lancashire Textile Gallery

Super Slow Way
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan
Arts Council England
National Lottery Heritage Fund
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Burnley Council
Hyndburn Borough Council
Pendle Council
visit Lancashire

our Curator Rachel is guest speaker The Crewel Work Company in Cumbria.

This afternoon Wednesday 4th October at 3:30pm we are hosting an online talk introducing the Lancashire Textile Gallery; a site we have developed in partnership with Super Slow Way and UCLAN with funding from Heritage Lottery Fund.

Our talk will focus on how the site can be used by museums, collections and heritage organisations to showcase collection objects or digital exhibitions and engage with communities. Tickets are free, just head to our Eventbrite page for more details and book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/gawthorpe-textiles-collection-3288050358

Image shows an 1830s print sample book from the Lancashire Textile Industry Collection, which features in one of the digital exhibitions on the Lancashire Textile Gallery site.