Sentence examples for textile heritage from inspiring English sources

However, they have targeted their core market successfully, namely the aspiring English country home owner, and have decent homewares and furniture as well as a significant textile heritage.

Tweed, too, has an important part to play in Scotland's textile heritage, thanks to the Harris Tweed Authority which, enabled by a 1993 Act of Parliament, oversees and protects the production of the cloth to a strict criteria.

There are also stately homes, including Floors Castle (01573 223333; roxburghe.net/castle), sandy beaches such as Coldingham and a fascinating textile heritage – the Johnstons of Elgin Cashmere Visitor Centre in Hawick (01450 360549; johnstonscashmere.com) offers a great introduction.

If I am underwhelmed at the prospect of a show of quilts at the V&A in London, it may be because nobody cared to rescue the great textile heritage left us by hundreds of tribal peoples.

"When many New England textile companies closed or chose to relocate in the South, we remained committed to the people in our local community," Mr. Horowitz said".The textile heritage of New England is still alive here".

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If calibration of the model is carried out prior to in situ measurement, there is the potential to use NIR as a quantitative non-invasive tool to complement audits used by conservators to quantitatively assess the condition of historic tapestries and other heritage textiles.

Despite the country's rich and ancient heritage in textile production, the winning bid was from a Chinese company.

The company recently announced that it would turn its original textile mill into a heritage conservation project for the benefit of the fashion design industry.

It's easy to take the mickey out of collections like this, with their earnest show notes - Bora Aksu's show, the first of the week, which was inspired by the handwoven textiles from his Turkish heritage, is another case in point - but they are part of what makes London fashion week brilliant.

The inspiration for this is, perhaps surprisingly, Memphis, the steamy city on the banks of the Mississippi which, like Dewsbury, enjoys a proud industrial heritage based on textiles and the arrival of the railroad – and also knows what it is to be on the receiving end of the outside world's disdain.