• Lancashire Textile Gallery - Cloth Cultures with Amber Butchart

  • By: Amber Butchart
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Lancashire Textile Gallery - Cloth Cultures with Amber Butchart

By: Amber Butchart
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  • Welcome back to the Cloth Cultures podcast series. Join Amber Butchart as she explores the Lancashire Textile Gallery, a new online resource that brings together objects and artefacts held by museums, archives and manufacturers from across the county. Throughout this series, Amber will be speaking to curators, artists, enthusiasts and researchers about everything from the exquisitely detailed medieval embroidery known as Opus Anglicanum, to costumes worn by visitors to Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the 1930’s.

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  • Ep 1

    Ep 1
    Apr 27 2023

    Welcome to the first episode of the Lancashire Textile Gallery - Cloth Cultures podcast series. Join Amber Butchart as she explores the Lancashire Textile Gallery, a new online resource that brings together objects and artefacts held by museums, archives and manufacturers from across the county.


    To kick us off, Amber heads straight to the heart of Lancashire’s textile heritage. In this episode Amber is joined by Phillip Butler and Heather Davies from Lancashire County Museum Service, and Madhu Mani, one of the newly commissioned artists for the Lancashire Textile Gallery.


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    49 mins
  • Ep 2

    Ep 2
    Apr 27 2023

    Welcome back to the Cloth Cultures podcast series. Join Amber Butchart as she explores the Lancashire Textile Gallery, a new online resource that brings together objects and artefacts held by museums, archives and manufacturers from across the county.


    In this episode, Amber will be delving into Opus Anglicanum, a form of English medieval embroidery that was prized around the world for its skill and artistry. Amber will be joined by Alison Cooper and Margery Dunderdale from Towneley Hall, to talk about how this historic house in Burnley, Lancashire has a set of remarkable Medieval vestments in their collection. Later in this episode we will also hear from researcher Esther Rollison who is working on a commission for the Lancashire Textile Gallery.


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    40 mins
  • Ep 3

    Ep 3
    Apr 27 2023

    Welcome back to the Cloth Cultures podcast series. Join Amber Butchart as she explores the Lancashire Textile Gallery, a new online resource that brings together objects and artefacts held by museums, archives and manufacturers from across the county.


    In this episode, we find ourselves in Blackpool as Amber speaks to Caroline Hall from Showtown, Blackpool’s new museum of fun and entertainment about seaside modernism and the intriguingly named Yama Yama suits. Amber will also be exploring how contemporary Blackpool based artist Garth Grartrix is responding to the town's entertainment heritage.


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    49 mins

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