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Past Events Category: Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the fall semester Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day! Once a semester, collection staff host a Community Day where we lead behind-the-scene tours and share information about the collection. In addition, …

photo of people standing in an art gallery listening to a speaker talk about a garment on a form

Feel the Beat: Felted Textiles

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
@ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm

Felt is considered to be the oldest constructed textile, predating weaving, knitting and knotted fabric structures. It is created through a process of rolling, agitation, and beating which causes the wool fibers to mat together …

A colorful, abstract design with a textured background in shades of green, blue, and yellow. Swirling shapes are layered throughout, giving a lively, dynamic feel. Overlaid in large, bold, white text are the words "Feel the Beat," with a subtitle below reading "Felted Textiles."

Plants Make Color!

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Drop by to meet a few plants that are packed with color! See and smell a few dye vats and watch the process of dyeing with plants as it happens. Visit the Remaking the Renaissance …

Square image of fabric samples arranged on wooden table. Four images of flowers are imposed on top with corresponding text. Clockwise from top: Cosmo, Cosmos sulphureus; Pincushion, Scabiosa atropurpurea; Indigo, Indigofera tinctoria; Walnut, Juglans regia.

Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day

Center for Design and Material Culture, 1235 Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the spring semester Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day! Once a semester, collection staff host a Community Day where we lead behind-the-scene tours and share information about the Collection. This event …

photo of two people with their backs to the cammera looking at a textile on a table with a phone taking a picture of the textile

Remaking Lace: Gallery Talk with Elena Kanagy-Loux

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
@ 12:00 pm

Join us for a gallery talk by lacemaker and researcher Elena Kanagy-Loux. Kanagy-Loux will share her experience of making lace edgings for a handkerchief on display in the Remaking the Renaissance exhibition. Please meet outside …

Square picture of white woman with braided pigtails and white cap with lacemaking equipment in front of her on a pink background with close up of lacemaking bobbins

Remaking the Renaissance

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
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Looking at key textile innovations in the era c.1400-1700, Remaking the Renaissance suggests that objects and their histories can be restored and recreated through conservation and research.

Photo of several maroon and yellow textiles layered on top of each other with the words Remaking the Renaissance over them.

HLATC Community Day

Center for Design and Material Culture, 1235 Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the fall semester HLATC Community Day! Once a semester, HLATC staff host a Community Day where we lead behind-the-scene tours and share information about the Collection. This event is open to the …

photo of a detailed close up of a red and multicolored woven textile

Exhibition tour of Social Threads at the School of Human Ecology

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
@ 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

At 2:30pm, visit the Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery at UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology for a tour of Social Threads: Making, Mending and Maintaining Community. This exhibition brings together objects from the Helen Louise Allen …

10 colorful squares of fabric surround the number 3 with the words Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 2:30pm tour Social Threads at the bottom of the image.
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