What do you get if you cross a bunch of lively 10-18 year olds from Partick and Anderston with a huge pile of resources from Glasgow School of Art’s textiles collection? Sew Last Century’s fabulous digitally printed textile collection! As you may already know, GSA’s Archives and Collections has been collaborating for the past year and a half with The Studio, a sewing and designing club for 10-18 year olds based in Partick and Anderston, on an
A while ago now, but we thought you might like to see a few snaps of the Sew Last Century troopers take part in Glasgow’s West End Festival Parade, which took place a few weeks ago. The girls looked fab in their very own designs inspired by GSA Archives and Collections’ Sylvia Chalmers sketches, designs and textiles. And look, sunshine! For more information about Sew Last Century!’s work with the Archives and Collections Centre, see
The Studio, a designing, making and textiles club for 10-18 year olds in Glasgow, has teamed up with the GSA Archives and Collections for an exciting 15th month project called ‘Sew Last Century!’. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Young Roots programme, the project will enable 60 young people from Glasgow to explore the Textiles heritage of their city, learn some heritage skills, and create their own designs based on the treasures they find in
About Highlights Related POsts View in Catalogue From 1845, as a Government School of Design, The Glasgow School of Art followed the South Kensington system, which provided a national curriculum in art and design practice intended to advance production and manufacturing of styles, techniques and quality of British goods at the height of the country’s imperial ambitions (Olalquiaga, 1999). Since 1845, ‘Design’ as a distinctive school or department at The Glasgow School of Art has
About Highlights Related POsts View in Catalogue Textile designer and entrepreneur Sylvia Chalmers (c1928-2008) was a Scottish prize-winning designer with an international profile in the 1950s who trained at GSA from 1947-1951. At the start of her career in the 1950s Chalmers worked in London producing textile designs for dress and interior furnishing for prestigious companies such as Heal’s or Elizabeth Eaton. She was elected to membership of the Society of Industrial Artists in 1958.
Glasgow School of Art’s Centre for Advanced Textiles produces printed fabrics using beautiful prints from the design archives of Lucienne Day, Lana MacKinnon, and GSA’s very own Robert Stewart and Sylvia Chalmers as part of their Classic Textiles range (see our previous blog post about how the Sew Last Century! textiles group have been inspired by Sylvia’s designs in our archives). Lucienne Day’s ‘Calyx’ and Robert Stewart’s ‘Otter Ferry’ from the Classic Textiles collection will
Last week the GSA Archives and Collections hosted an open afternoon where people could come into the archive to learn more about the George and Cordelia Oliver Archive and see some of the highlights of the collection. As part of this event Academic Liaison Librarian David Buri gave a short talk about the photographs of George Oliver and for those of you who could not make the open afternoon, below is a transcription of David’s
Hello everyone! I’m Cat Doyle – the latest addition to the archives and collections team! I am here as part of Skills for the Future Opening Up Scotland’s Archives project and will be spending six months looking into The Glasgow School of Art’s international links. I hope to share lots of intriguing stories about the school’s previous international staff and students in this space throughout the project! I’m fairly new to the world of archives
