textiles Archives : GSA Archives & Collections

Tea cosy featuring Glasgow Style embroidery

Exhibitions and Events

Wednesday Wanders at The Whisky Bond

Reserve a spot here to join us next Wednesday the 9th of November for an afternoon of tours around The Glasgow School of Art Archives

1 November 2022

Projects and Research

Dress to Impress: A student’s take on our Daisy McGlashan Dress

Our material provides inspiration for lots of different creative projects here at GSA Archives and Collections but we don’t often see the finished result. That

6 April 2022

Creative Engagement

Image Eye Candy

Hello blog readers! We know it’s been a while since our last blog, but we’re delighted to be back and getting into the second month

2 February 2022

Figurative and pattern gouache drawings by Hanneline Visnes. Image copyright Alan Dimmick.

Exhibitions and Events

Artists using Archives: ambi exhibition

There are just a few days left to see ambi, a partnership between Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and GSA, which runs until this

25 May 2021

Projects and Research

Researching Biographies – Part 2

This week’s post is part 2 of our “Researching Biographies” blog, following on from Part 1 here. A&C Support Assistant Kay gives an insight into

8 December 2020

Learning and Teaching

Being (Virtually) Human: First Year Experience 2020

After a long summer of preparation, the new First Year Experience course kicked off at GSA on the 19th of November 2020. Slightly different than last year’s course

10 November 2020

News

#MuseumPassion

This month, we took part in #MuseumPassion, a social media initiative to get museums talking about the items in their collections that they are

27 October 2020

News

Archive Activities 4: Repeat Patterns and Tile Motifs

If you’ve been following us on social media, you’ll have seen that we’ve had a whole host of creative activities for you to take part

23 July 2020

Cataloguing and Digitisation

New Images Update: May 2020

As some of you will know from following our social media, we’re currently in the process of digitising and uploading lots of lovely new images

26 May 2020

Conservation

Update on our Textile Storage

You may remember we told you about our textile repackaging project, involving hundreds of items from our textile collection. Well, we thought it was time

19 May 2020

News

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

Creative Engagement

First Year Experience: Archive Anecdotes

We at the Archives and Collections have recently been reflecting on the fantastic creative work that our first year students produced as a result of

17 April 2020

The Blog

Wednesday Wanders at The Whisky Bond

Dress to Impress: A student’s take on our Daisy McGlashan Dress

Image Eye Candy

Artists using Archives: ambi exhibition

Researching Biographies – Part 2

Being (Virtually) Human: First Year Experience 2020

#MuseumPassion

Archive Activities 4: Repeat Patterns and Tile Motifs

New Images Update: May 2020

Update on our Textile Storage

Archive Activities 1: Decorative Animal and Chinese Robe

First Year Experience: Archive Anecdotes

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