Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
National Museum Cardiff rehangs Welsh collection with new labels
Bilingual interpretation puts industrial histories beside contemporary work.
National Museum Cardiff completed a major rehang of its Welsh collection, pairing industrial-era paintings with contemporary responses and rewriting labels in sharper bilingual English and Welsh.
“The labels finally talk to people who did not study art history.”
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