http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk Information relating to the proposed closure of the Textile Conservation Centre in Winchester Fri, 15 May 2009 07:38:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) IIC President Jerry Podany spoke last Sunday on the BBC Radio 4 program The World this Weekend about the closure of the UK Textile Conservation Centre. The closure of the centre has recently hit the headlines in the wider ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/04/25/in-the-news-again/ From Heritage Crafts Association news HCA The Textile Conservation Centre was founded in 1975 by Karen Finch OBE and was based at Hampton Court Palace for nearly 25 years. It is of international importance having trained over half of the textile conservators working in the world today. In 1998, the Centre merged ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/04/21/closure-of-the-textile-conservation-centre/ From Robin Wood Woodcraft The Textile Conservation Centre was founded in 1975 by Karen Finch OBE and was based at Hampton Court Palace for nearly 25 years. It is of international importance having trained over half of the textile conservators working in the world today. In 1998 the Centre merged with the ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/04/20/closure-of-the-textile-conservation-centre-2/ From Knitbuddies The Textile Conservation Centre closes Nov 2009 confirmed About 2 years ago I read that the University of Southampton was looking for additional funding and or moving there Textile Conservation department to another University. The Textile Conservation department at the University of Southampton has been responsible for the training ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/04/16/a-loss-to-the-world-in-so-many-ways/ From the BBC News A number of textile specialists are to be made redundant when a conservation centre shuts amid a funding crisis. Winchester School of Art's Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) in Hampshire, which is part of the University of Southampton, will shut on 31 October. Earlier, the university told the ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/04/14/conservation-centre-set-to-close/ From Matthew More, Telegraph.co.uk The entire staff of the Textile Conservation Centre will be laid off in November after the University of Southampton decided that it could no longer afford to host its work. The closure brings to an end decades of preservation work by the organisation, which had become a centre ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/04/14/bagpuss-carers-face-redundancy-as-cutbacks-hit-textile-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 ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/04/14/textile-conservation-experts-face-the-sack-in-a-material-world/ TCC CLOSURE As recipients of earlier updates about the future of the Textile Conservation Centre will be aware, the University of Southampton has decided to close the TCC on 31st October 2009. The Centre's supporting Trust, the TCC Foundation, has for some months been discussing the possibility of transferring ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2009/03/16/closure-of-the-textile-conservaiton-centre-on-31st-october-2009-confirmed/ From Nell Hoare, Director of the TCC The last update about the future of the TCC was widely circulated in late spring 2008. It is now timely to provide a further bulletin on the progress of efforts to find a future for the work of the internationally renowned Textile Conservation Centre The ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2008/09/23/tcc-update-september-2008/ From Andrew Napier at the Southern Daily Echo THE Government has refused to intervene over the threatened closure of the world-renowned Textile Conservation Centre in Winchester. The centre trains most of the world's fabric conservation experts and among the historic textiles it has preserved have been the topsail of Nelson's HMS Victory, ... http://textileconservationcentre.co.uk/2008/07/22/trying-to-weave-future-for-centre/