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Textile Events and Exhibitions 09/10

 Until Summer 2010

The Manchester Indian :  Thomas Wardle and India - Manchester

Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER

Aston Hall, Birmingham

23rd September 2009

MTF members spent a day at Aston Hall which has just undergone a £10M redevelopment and refit by the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.  The hall was built between 1618-35 by Sir Thomas Holte and shows its Jacobean architecture with fine C17th and C18th interiors.  The house displays some of the Museums’ furniture collection, a number of fine tapestries, metalwork, ceramics and paintings. 

Also on view aresome of the results of the long-term project between BMAG and the Asian Women’s Textile Group who are based both at Aston Hall and Soho House museums.