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		<title>Betty Smithers Exhibition in conjunction with Staffs University</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are very excited to be joining forces with Staffs University to put on an exhibition at Newcastle-under-Lyme&#8217;s Borough Museum and Art Gallery next summer (2011) .
This exhibition is focussed on the Betty Smithers design collection that the university holds and they are presenting an exhibition of Betty Smithers clothes.  MTF have been invited to visit the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Midlands Textile Forum website</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello and a warm welcome to the Midlands Textile Forum website. 
The Midlands Textile Forum is a group of textile enthusiasts and professionals from all across the Midlands, both East and West, reaching as far north as Leek, in the Staffordshire Moorlands, and as far south as Stroud in Gloucestershire.  We provide various social and professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information. grants, opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=139</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Newcastle-under-Lyme Museum &#38; Art Gallery
Tina Ball, at Newcastle-under-Lyme Museum &#38; Art Gallery, produces a useful round-up of information, what&#8217;s on, opportunities etc in a fortnightly e-newsletter, called Creative Catchup.  For more information, please email her at Tina.Ball@newcastle-staffs.gov.uk 
 
Designer Maker West Midlands
This website contains useful information for designer makers and organisations within the West Midlands.
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		<title>Textile Events and Exhibitions 09/10</title>
		<link>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=126</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Until Summer 2010
The Manchester Indian :  Thomas Wardle and India - Manchester
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER
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		<title>Aston Hall, Birmingham</title>
		<link>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=95</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[23rd September 2009
MTF members spent a day at Aston Hall which has just undergone a £10M redevelopment and refit by the Birmingham Museums &#38; 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&#8217; furniture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham Museums Collections Centre Visit</title>
		<link>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=91</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If ever you want to be inspired by a huge eclectic mix of artefacts, then this is the place for you to visit! 
A group from MTF went on for a study day facilitated by Birmingham Museum &#38; Art Gallery curators Zelina Garland and Jeremy Ross.  We were shown around the whole 4.5 acre warehouse, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babble and Dabble Days</title>
		<link>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Babble and Dabble Days have become a popular feature of MTF&#8217;s events calendar.  Now extended to 4 times a year, we come together to meet and see each others work, talk about it informally, exchange ideas, share our doubts, aspirations, obsessions, tea and coffee and cake! 
We start the day with a 20 - 30 minute &#8217;spotlight&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Threads Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=16</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midlands Textile Forum selected exhibition. 2008 saw the launch of our biennial selected exhibtion called COMMON THREADS. Michael Brennand Wood and Sian Martin were the selectors for this exhibition.  The exhibition was held at: The Leicester Creative Business Deport LCB Depot, Rutland Street, Leicester from Monday 17th November - Thursday 4th December 08.

Exhibition Poster (large PDF file please be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exotica:  5th - 30th September 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=15</link>
		<comments>http://www.midlandstextileforum.com/?p=15#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 22:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Botanical Gardens inspiration opportunity &#38; selected exhibition
Sketching days in 2009 at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens provided the starting point for work for this themed, selected exhibition. With exotic plants imported from other lands all within the fabulous setting of the gardens, we are sure to be inspired on the theme of ‘Exotica&#8217; defined as any rare [...]]]></description>
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