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Archive Activities 1: Decorative Animal and Chinese Robe

Now that the Easter Holidays are becoming a distant memory, you may have seen on our social media that we’ve got some activities for kids (or adults…)

28 April 2020

Exhibitions and Events

The STAR’s of Tomorrow Today

We thought we’d show off some brilliant photographs of embroidery work recently exhibited at the Made In Paisley gallery by participants of The STAR Project!

21 March 2019

Cataloguing and Digitisation

Pictures, lovely pictures!

Our Documentation Assistant Lucy Stock is here to talk about some colourful finds from our current digitisation project! Happy New Year Hello to all, and

10 January 2019

News

That’s not a penguin!

Did you know World Penguin Day is approaching? This month, when each of us on the Archives and Collections team chose what we would tweet

13 April 2018

Conservation

A visit from Glasgow University Textile Conservation students

A few weeks ago we hosted a visit from the students of the textile conservation MPhil course at The University of Glasgow. The group have

13 November 2017

Projects and Research

The Needlework Development Scheme: Investigating the GSA Eskimo Doll

The Needlework Development Scheme in Scotland was a venture that ran from 1934-1939, and 1944-1961 and was a collaboration between art and design education with

4 August 2016

Projects and Research

The GSA Archive’s Textile Collections

Volunteer Karen Harkness writes about her recent work on the extensive GSA Archives Textile Collection. Please note that some material in our collections contains historical

8 June 2016

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A New Record of the Magna Carta

If you have not yet heard, this year Britain marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, an important document in our history that has

30 July 2015

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Glasgow Girl Ann Macbeth and a Recent Acquisition

Today we celebrate a recent acquisition in the archive of a fire screen attributed to the notable Glasgow Girl, Ann Macbeth. This object was generously

8 July 2015

Exhibitions and Events

Sew Last Century! at the The West End Festival

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

1 July 2013

Embroidered panels, by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, c1902-1904

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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh embroidered panels return from Japan

Our beautiful pair of embroidered panels by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, have returned from their exhibition tour of Japan. The

12 June 2013

Ann Macbeth (top left) painting alongside fellow female students, c1912

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Up the Women

There seems to have been a burgeoning interest in the Women’s Suffrage Movement recently, if prime time television is anything to go by anyway. Last

31 May 2013

The Blog

Archive Activities 1: Decorative Animal and Chinese Robe

The STAR’s of Tomorrow Today

Pictures, lovely pictures!

That’s not a penguin!

A visit from Glasgow University Textile Conservation students

The Needlework Development Scheme: Investigating the GSA Eskimo Doll

The GSA Archive’s Textile Collections

A New Record of the Magna Carta

Glasgow Girl Ann Macbeth and a Recent Acquisition

Sew Last Century! at the The West End Festival

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh embroidered panels return from Japan

Up the Women

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