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3 mar 2024 · Curated by design historian Amber Butchart, this exhibition explores printed propaganda textiles over more than two centuries. Discover how fabric designers and manufacturers have responded to political upheaval from the French Revolution through to Brexit.
2 lis 2023 · Hear how the exhibition explores how fabrics have been used as a political medium both in the home and on the body, through furnishing and fashion. Find out how textiles were used as a tool of the state across the political spectrum, from communism to fascism.
19 lis 2023 · In this week's blog, Costume Society Ambassador Holly Siddle reviews the exhibition The Fabric of Democracy: Propaganda Textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit, currently on display at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London.
28 wrz 2023 · Preview. Review: Fabric of Democracy – Propaganda textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit. 28 September 2023. Words: Pamela Buxton. Exhibition reveals how political messages and militaristic or nationalistic images and patterns bring propaganda to a domestic level on clothes and fabrics.
5 paź 2023 · Warp and Weft. A new exhibition at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum looks at the ideological positions communicated by the most innocuous-seeming of domestic fabrics. It’s a stitch-up, says its curator.
29 wrz 2023 · Find out how textiles were used as a tool of the state across the political spectrum, from communism to fascism. Discover how a fraternal crisis in the monarchy played out on cloth, and how democracies promote national identity through textile design.
22 wrz 2023 · The Fabric of Democracy, an exhibition opening at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London this month, aims to explore the age-old connection between clothing and politics, focusing...
