Fully Fashioned

Fully Fashioned: Archival remnants of the textile trade ran from Friday 6th September to Sunday 1st December 2019

Using photographs, marketing materials and business records from the University of Nottingham’s lace and hosiery archive collections, this exhibition explored surviving evidence of the textile trade which was once a major feature of the East Midlands. Other collections reveal the struggle for workers’ rights, from the targeted campaign of machine breaking by the Luddites of the East Midlands (in protest at unfair pay and the introduction of ‘cut ups’ in favour of the superior fully-fashioned stockings), to the development of unions such as the Nottingham-based Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers and Auxiliary Workers.