Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
British Library digitises a unruly regional zine archive
Punk fold-outs and community newsletters become searchable without losing grit.
A new digitisation project brings regional zines into public view, preserving DIY layouts that official histories often skipped.
Curators resisted over-cleaning scans so photocopier grit and handwritten margin notes remain part of the record.
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