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Calling museum staff! Upcoming deadline: 30 June. Raine grants of up to £500 are available to assist curators, conservators and researchers working in UK museums and public collections, for object-based research into #textiles & #fashion history: pasold.co.uk/raine-grants

If anyone is struggling to join the symposium online, please get in touch with us here as soon as possible and we will be able to help. Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Symposium last week online or in-person. We would love to hear your feedback from the day so that we can improve future events. If you have the time, you can leave feedback by following this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We’re looking for student / recent graduate papers to present at the Icon Textile Group 2024 AGM! The deadline for submissions is Monday 20th May. For full details please refer to icon.org.uk/events/textile…

Would you like to join the Icon Textile Group committee? We have 6 positions opening across the committee in various roles.  To apply please send a 250 word statement of intent to [email protected], as well as a brief biography. Deadline Friday 31st May 2024.

Still time to book tickets for our upcoming event on Tuesday 4th June MuseumofLondon Docklands. We have joined in a joint venture with Icon Textile Group to talk about Fashion x Synthetic textiles and accessories! icon.org.uk/events/textile…

The Icon Textile and Modern Materials Group trip to visit the new exhibition  'Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style' at the Museum of London, Docklands is approaching!  To book your place and for more information please find the link to the event in our bio.

If you joined us in-person or online for the Symposium in May, you should have received an email this week with a link to watch back the event. Please let us know if you have any difficulty accessing it.

Book now for ICON Textile Group AGM for the graduate research exchange. Presentations by Maria Enqvist and Mirjam Ruutma on: ‘Documentation and Conservation of textile fragments from the collections of the Turku Cathedral Museum, Finland.’ Wednesday 19th June, 3pm-5pm🗓️

At our AGM tomorrow, another talk given will be from Marcela Peña: ‘Weaving Landscapes: An Archeology of Landscapes and Textiles in the Caves of Los Indios, Del Duende, and El Conde, in La Mesa de Los Santos, Santander, Colombia (11th-15th Centuries AD).’ Book now through Icon.

Our third and final presentation this afternoon at the AGM is presented by Margherita Barone titled: ‘Study and conservation of an early 20th-century female dress: issues and conservative solutions.’

Applications are now open for the Tru Vue® Grant 2024! Grants are available to small heritage institutions to support conservation projects that enable the safe display of an object in their collection. Details: icon.org.uk/impact/the-tru… Image: Colin Davison

Booking for our next online lecture 'The Finishing Touch: The role of the trimmings-maker in the upholstered room' from Annabel Westman on 18th September 2024 6:30-7:30pm is open! 🗓️ icon.org.uk/events/the-fin…

Tonight's Talk "The Finishing Touch: The role of the trimmings-maker in the upholstered room" by Annabel Westman will not be recorded. Tune in at 6.30 this evening to watch! icon.org.uk/events/the-fin…

Booking is now open for our next online talk: The Glen Affric Tartan: Decoding a unique survivor. This will take place online at 1pm on Wednesday 13th November 2024. Please book tickets through lcon, the link is in our bio. Image credit: Peter MacDonald

Call for Papers! The Emerging Conservators Committee (ECC) of the Canadian Association for Conservation welcomes abstract submissions for the 4th Annual Emerging Conservators Symposium. For more information, please email [email protected].