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Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

The Nottingham Costume & Textile Peer Review. Nottingham City Museums & Galleries. Costume & Textile Peer Review. Why was a Peer Review needed? Collections recently moved Loss of curatorial expertise To inform decision making processes

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Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

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  1. The Nottingham Costume & Textile Peer Review Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  2. Costume & Textile Peer Review • Why was a Peer Review needed? • Collections recently moved • Loss of curatorial expertise • To inform decision making processes • To identify strengths in the collection for Designation • To partner NTU ahead of a Lace Designation application • To support the NTU feasibility study to develop a textile centre in Nottingham • To offer suggestions for storage and other improvements • To value the objects as part of the European Audit Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  3. Costume & Textile Peer Review • What should be included? • A more free flowing approach lead by the Registrar and guided by the expertise of the reviewers • Sampling the larger collections • Significance • Strengths & weaknesses • Support documentation, including use • Valuation Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  4. Costume & Textile Peer Review Object Groupings Costume & Textiles excluding Lace Bobbin, needle and pillow Lace Machine lace Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  5. Costume & Textile Peer Review • Finding specialists to carry out the review • Advice from Philip Warren, Leicestershire Museums • Specialist lace organisations – web search Heather Toomer Published hand made lace specialist Consultant Area to be covered: Bobbin, needle and pillow lace Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  6. Costume & Textile Peer Review Our Reviewers Pennie Alfrey Loughborough University Textile conservator Helped with former Costume Museum lace display Area to be covered: Machine made lace Overall report Anthea Jarvis The CostumeSociety Liverpool Museums Platt Hall Costume Museum Area to be covered: Costume & Textiles excluding lace Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  7. Costume & Textile Peer Review • Preliminary work in advance of site visits • Basic audit following collection move • Basic sorting of the support archive • Creation of store lists for each costume group • Timescales • Q2-Q3 Write review brief • Q3 Identify Reviewers • Q3-Q4 Carry out reviews • Q4 Amend Collections Development Strategy • Q4+ Commence recommended tasks Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  8. Costume & Textile Peer Review • Work carried out during site visits • Review original documentation • Comparison documents drawn up for machine lace Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  9. Costume & Textile Peer Review • Preliminary Results to date • Heather Toomer – Hand Made Lace • Some representative samples of British made lace are absent • Some lace making tools, patterns and partly made up samples are also absent • Overall the collection meets the remit of the current Collections Development Strategy • Expansion likely to be slow • Individual pieces are not of national significance, however, the breadth of the collection does make it nationally important Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

  10. Costume & Textile Peer Review • Preliminary Results to date • Heather Toomer – Hand Made Lace • Possible future interpretation • Chronology C16th-C20th showing design changes, use of portraits • Concentration on a particular time period, showing how lace was worn • The contrasting lives of the lace-maker and the lace wearer through the Industrial revolution • Lace techniques – distinguishing hand from machine made lace • The development of machine lace, mimicking hand lace • Comparisons with contemporary lace designs Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

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