Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Belfast mural conservation project trains local youth crews
Technique workshops aim to protect contested walls without freezing them.
A Belfast conservation project is training young people to stabilise historic murals—protecting pigment and plaster while leaving room for communities to renegotiate what walls should say next.
Funders stress documentation over nostalgia.
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