The exhibition Textiles: The Art of Mankind, curated by Textile Society Honorary Member Mary Schoeser, celebrates the ancient and deep entanglement between textiles, people and our world. Through the beauty of textiles, you will encounter human ingenuity that can be traced from pre-history to our digital age. Eminent textile historian Mary Schoeser is providing a curator’s talk exclusively for Textile Society delegates on the afternoon of Monday 16 June 2025. Textiles reveal the human desire to engage with texture and colour, record histories, thoughts and feelings, and preserve skills to hand down to generations. Across the globe, they carry sacred significance, express our cultural regard for animals, while others symbolise life’s mysteries. Told through themes spanning materials, identity, collaboration and sustainability, Textiles: The Art of Mankind explores how craft and creativity connects society. This is a rare chance to see objects never before exhibited in the UK - a vibrant textile from Panama depicting a mermaid to represent fertility, a stunning wall hanging reflecting on Sardinia’s history of occupation, or an ingenious ceremonial bag shaped like a human hand suggesting a welcome gesture. We look forward to welcoming you to this evocative exhibition exploring the identities, meanings and ideas captured in textiles. Join this exclusive Textile Society event and benefit from special access on a day when the museum is closed to the general public. Also, on display is Connecting Threads: Collaboration is at the heart of textile making and this idea is explored in a display of work by UK based artist Lynn Setterington, Winner of the Textile Society Critical Writing Award 2020.Through textiles Lynn challenges contemporary issues in society and how stitch can be used to commemorate people and communities. Programme: 2.00pm Arrival and Registration. 2.15pm Illustrated talk by textile historian and curator Mary Schoeser. Approx. 3.00pm Afternoon tea/coffee. 3.15pm Exclusive access and gallery tour of Textiles: The Art of Mankind. 5.00pm Close. Ticket prices include: Entrance to the museum. Curator’s illustrated talk. Afternoon tea/coffee. Exclusive access and gallery tour of Textiles: The Art of Mankind. Access to Connecting Threads. Banner-cotton-applique-flag-Fon-people-Copyright-©-SEE-SUPPORTING-DOC Peacock-feathers-from-a-hat.-Romanian-20th-century Image: Pillow-kit-printed-cotton-kit-with-dotted-cutting-lines-2048x1569 Image credits: Copyright ©2005-2012 The Regents of the University of California, Davis campus. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission. Mary Schoeser MA FRSA has authored some 280 publications large and small. Books related to the Fashion and Textile Museum exhibition include World Textiles: A concise history (Thames & Hudson: 2003/2023), Silk (Yale University Press, 2007) and Textiles: The art of mankind (T&H, 2012/2013). Formerly Archivist for Warner & Sons, since 1991 Mary has been consultant archivist to firms such as Liberty of London, as well as advising museums in Britain and America, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over 40 curatorial projects range from the contribution to Chintz: Cotton in Bloom at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London (2021) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Off the Wall: American Art to Wear (2019). Mary lectures widely, since 2018 at Textilmuseum St Gallen, National Museums Scotland, University of Lisbon, Textile Center Haslach (Austria), Winterthur Museum (Delaware USA) and the Wellcome Institute, London. She is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the V&A and also Patron of the Bernat Klein Foundation and School of Textiles, Coggeshall. This exhibition brings to London a range of ethnographic garments and textiles from the Jo Ann C. Stabb Collection at the University of California Davis, where Mary was taught by Jo Ann during her first degree (a BSc in Design) and developed her interest in global and interdisciplinary studies. The Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection is a special resource that supports and enhances the teaching and research goals of the Department of Design at University of California, Davis. Managed by Adele Zhang, also a former student of Jo Ann’s, the collection consists of over 5,000 items ranging from the 16th Century to present day with the focus on ethnic and endangered textiles and costumes from around the world. Textile the Art of Mankind is showing from 28 March 2025 to 7 September 2025

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