Save the Textile Conservation Centre

From Ben Hoyle, Times Online

Bagpuss, Freddie Mercury’s fake leather trousers and Henry VIII’s football boots would all be in a much worse state without a British group of conservation experts.

Now the Textile Conservation Centre, which has restored thousands of historically significant bits of fabric and trained about half the leading textile conservators in the world, faces becoming history itself.
The centre at the University of Southampton is to shut its doors on October 31. The university, which houses the centre on its School of Art campus in Winchester, gave warning two years ago that it could no longer afford to support it after 2009. It hoped then that an alternative home could be found but a proposed deal with the University of Oxford has fallen through.

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