UK Museums with Textile Collections

UK Museums with Textile Collections


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Surrey 

• Chertsey Museum

The Olive Matthews Collection

This spectacular collection features many items of national significance. It contains over 4,000 men's, women's and children's fashionable clothes dating from c.1700 to the present. They help to reveal the history of dress and textiles throughout the centuries, highlighting changes in style, fashion and fabrics.
http://chertseymuseum.org/Fashion

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Kent

• Maidstone Museum

Maidstone Museum’s ‘Dressing Rooms’ – or Costume Gallery – shows a chronological progression of the changing shape of women’s dress from 1800 to 2000. The display incorporates underwear, accessories, children’s garments, and doll’s clothes from each decade, all complemented by paintings and photographs from the collections.
http://museum.maidstone.gov.uk/explore/collections/costumes/

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West Sussex

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