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The marvels of Dacron polyester

For our next online talk Dr Alicia Chrysostomou will look at #Bioplastics, exploring their 'origins, resurgence and attendant confusion when considering growing environmental concerns'. Are they all they're cracked up to be? We'll find out 19th April 6pm more info on our website

A new #heritagescience paper by #PhD researcher Tjasa Rijavec, on #PVC degradation was published. Access the full article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.poly… Photo: Chair, Blow; Designed by Jonathan de Pas. Matt Flynn © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

We were delighted to welcome Dr Louise Dennis, the Curator of MoDiP, and Calvin Woodings, a fibres specialist, for two illuminating talks this week. With art & design students from Richmond College, we learnt lots about the subject of our next exhibition: artificial silk🧪👗

Can anyone help our friend Lara identify her little plastic plane?

Wrapping up The Plastics That Made Us with a discussion on the past, present, and future of plastics, from the curators who look after them #PlasticsFuture2023 @DeborahSuggRyan Johanna Agerman Ross MoDiP Science Museum V&A Plastics Historical Society #RevolutionPlastics

Day 2 of #plasticsfuture2023 really interesting perspectives on why our attitudes towards #plastic are as they are. Why do we treat it as cheap? Why do we think of it as an inauthentic material? Nice history lessons from Plastics Historical Society and MoDiP

Great to see PHS member Caroline Henney talking about her collection of #plastic #jewellery in this month's Homes & Antiques magazine #bakelite #plasticshistory

Our Christmas event and AGM this year is themed around time. Members should have received all the details by email and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible next month Susan Mossman

Pleased to see next stage of this Vitra / V&A exhibition as it travels on to Singapore. Including loans from the Plastics Historical Society Plastics Historical Society facilitated by great team MoDiP. Thanks.

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We kick off 2025 in style with an online presentation from dress and textile historian Edwina Ehrman-"A century of style: from mass market to high fashion". This talk will focus on the synthetic fibres which shaped key fashions. 28th Jan at 6pm booking on Plastics Historical Society

Webinar: 26th March at 6pm on zoom. Barbara Paleka Lucas "Alexander Parkes, The Noblest Game"? Free to PHS members and Horners; £5 to non-members, further details on Plastiquarian.com

Plastics training West Dean College 13/14 May. Icon Modern Materials Group Fashion and Textile Museum the Design Museum UCL

Source: West Dean westdean.ac.uk/short-courses/…