10:32am Tuesday 16th March 2010
DRESSES from Jane Austen’s time, an even earlier riding suit, children’s clothes, smocks, the Elizabethan Basing embroidery, sewing patterns, innumerable shoes and hats – some collection for Alison Carter to care for.
Alison explained how her team at Chilcomb near Winchester repaired damaged items, stored them in boxes or cupboards away from light and distributed them around county museums and exhibitions.
We were so pleased to learn that Alison had purchased the Steventon Sampler, Vera Hutton-Croft’s embroidery made in 1945 to commemorate the end of hostilities in Europe, earlier in this financial year.
Visitors and members alike checked items brought to show us and took advice on how to preserve their own textiles and perhaps donate them to the museum service of an appropriate county.
The next meeting will be in the Music and Drama room at North Waltham School at 8pm on Thursday, March 25, when Sue Tapliss, curator of The Willis Museum, brings items for us to identify in ‘What’s This?’ Members are invited to bring their own artefacts for identification.
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