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Dress and Textiles in the College of Arts
There’s no escaping dress and textiles. From birth to death they are the literal fabric of people’s lives. Born out of creativity or necessity, made by hand or machine, owned for luxury or...
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Dress & Textiles: Find your perfect fit with us
It is easy to find patterns in the work we do about Dress and Textiles in the College of Arts. Our research is innovative and exciting; it is colourful and richly textured both literally and...
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Connecting with the past through Dress and Textiles
‘Show and Tell event in the Vale of Leven, Colouring the Nation Project, University of Edinburgh’ Dress and textile history is a multi-sensory subject. The smell of moth balls is probably something...
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Dress and Textiles and the Value of KE Networks
Material dyed using Turkey Red. Image reproduced from ‘Resurrecting Turkey Red’ Hunterian Associates Project Tumblr website. Studying the material past of dress and textiles history allows us to look...
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Archives & Special Collections: Dress and Textiles
Dress and Textiles are part of every aspect of daily life and Archive Services & Special Collections hold fascinating collections that relate to them. We are also further enhancing our textile...
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Scottish Hand Knitting: from craft tradition to modern business
Knitting workshop Hand knitting is a major contributor to our Dress and Textiles theme as it is currently undergoing a popular revival, credited with everything from improving wellbeing to supporting...
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Dress and Textiles: Conserving ‘Democracy’ for the Palace of Westminster
You may have seen tapestries, hanging in the background of television interviews and select committee meetings at Portcullis House? This year, the Palace of Westminster asked students from the College...
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College of Arts Industry Day 2015
Where better to connect with the College of Arts than Industry Day 2015? On Friday 5 June we want to show you the very best of our partnerships to inspire new projects for the future. You can hear from...
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KTP: Innovate UK’s Best Kept Secret?
You may have decided that you wish to engage with a university. Thats the first hurdle out of the way. The mechanism by which you will engage is the next challenge. For organisations seeking to improve...
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Arts Industry Day: Ní neart go cur le chéile (There is no strength until we...
Arts Industry Day 2015 chair Sally McNair With over 230 people registered, the College of Arts Industry Day 2015 presented a unique opportunity for organisations from private, public and third sector...
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The World’s First Comic
Next year, visitors to The Hunterian will be able to see the world’ first comic and the world’s second comic, too. The world’s second comic, by Swiss author Rodolphe Tôpffer, was produced in the 1830s....
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Landscape Management and the Ecomuseum
Crossing the Vjosa / Aoos river, Permet, Albania, 2013. Credits VAEcoM/Stamos Abatis. Ecomuseums are museums without walls; they are a landscape. They can exist in rural or urban areas, but they have...
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The Student Internship Hub
Hendrik Spoering, interned with Macs from 1st June to 24th Aug 2015. Image provided by Sheena McBeth The Internship Hub, formerly Club 21, is based within the Careers Service and is an innovative...
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Making Science Human
‘Flowers and Floorboards’ is the latest research-led film project by filmmaker and academic Dr Holger Mohaupt. Dr Mohaupt, convenor of the new MSc in Filmmaking and Media Arts at the University of...
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Conserving Contemporary Arts
Joanna Hoffmann, conservator at Contemporary Conservation New York, treating a work with chocolate silkscreened onto Epson inkjet print on canvas. Photo by Kelley Walker. Copyright Contemporary...
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Making Fantasy a Reality
“It’s the literature of the impossible”, says Dr Rob Maslen, describing fantasy fiction. With science fiction, the events of the story could be explained in terms that relate to science in the real...
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Colouring the Past
We often think of history in black and white – even the textiles that survive have lost their original shades. But how would our understanding of the past change if we could see it in colour? The...
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The Wildness of Performance
For many academics, their ideas develop in academic research and their ‘impact’ on the outside world comes later. But Sarah Hopfinger takes a different approach: “I’m a practicing artist who has come...
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Scots in Translation
“There is no standard spelling for hoose,” says Dr Susan Rennie, and as someone who has worked with dictionaries for many years, she should know. This is just one problem that a translator of Scots...
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Curators of Cultural Enterprise
CEO Advisor session In the UK, the creative industries have been on governments’ agendas for 20 years. Agencies have sprung up to make creative workers more business-like but we really know very little...
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