Yesterday afternoon saw the launch event of the Stoddard-Templeton archive catalogue that is now fully available to search on-line. The event included an exhibition of some highlights of the collection, screening of some of the companies’ films and talks from… Read More ›
This lunchtime I was in the Hunterian Museum giving the Hunterian Insight talk. I was talking about the Stoddard-Templeton Archive, which is full of fantastic resources from the world’s leading carpet manufacturers. I was showing off some of our design… Read More ›
Archive Services is celebrating the launch of the online catalogue for the Stoddard-Templeton Archive with an open afternoon on Thursday, 19th April. We’ll have some of the highlights of the Archive on display, be showing some of the companies’ films,… Read More ›
Special Collections are intrigued and excited to be part of Culture Hack 2012, a 24-hour event that ’…challenges designers, technologists and artists to make innovative new culture-related projects…’ The event theme is Data, Sound + Vision and we are contributing scrapbook images and listings of poems from the papers… Read More ›
In honour of Burns Night this year you may remember that we had a look through our archives for anything related to the Bard and found a fabulous rug design from the 1960s, by Gray’s carpets, in our Stoddard and… Read More ›
Over the past eight months, we’ve highlighted a number of contract carpets – those made to order, including those for luxury liners, for Glasgow Cathedral, and for the coronation of George VI. In addition to these prestigious commissions, Stoddard, Templeton… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard - Templeton Design Archive is a small design attributed to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Glasgow born artist, designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), as we all probably know, is today celebrated internationally as one… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a collection of designs by Agnes Pinder Davis from the 1930s. Agnes Pinder Davis was a well known and well respected artist/designer in the 1930s. She produced countless designs for ceramic… Read More ›
This week’s gems from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive come from a drawer entitled “Picture”. When I opened the drawer to begin cataloguing what was inside, I must admit that, going by the title of the drawer alone, I didn’t really… Read More ›
This week’s Stoddard Templeton Friday Gem comes from the Archive’s Associated Design Records, and features a small number of cyanotypes, or blueprints, of early Templeton carpet designs (STOD/201/1/7/23). Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print. It… Read More ›
