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Stoddard-Templeton Catalogue Launch
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 archivists who catalogued the collection as well as designers who have already used the collection. … Continue reading
Stoddard-Templeton Archive: Magic Carpets
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 sketches – including some by Mary Quant, our chenille fabric sample, and a Templetonian (staff … Continue reading
Open Afternoon: Stoddard-Templeton Archive Launch
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, and have some talks from one of the archivists who catalogued the collection and from … Continue reading
Edwin Morgan: Culture Hack!
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 of Edwin Morgan, who was fascinated by new technology and inventive in his writing throughout … Continue reading
Robert Burns in the Archives: Revisited
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 Templeton collection. We were delighted to receive a response from a blog-reader in Canada who … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive: Sport
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 and the other companies included in the collection were also commissioned by public bodies, businesses … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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 of the most significant figures in design history in the late 19th and early 20th … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Agnes Pinder Davis
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 firms such as Royal Doulton and Crown Staffordshire, specialising in tea and dinner services as … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Picture
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 know what to expect. However, of all things, I certainly didn’t expect to find what … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Cyanotypes
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 was popular in engineering circles well into the 20th century as the simple and low-cost … Continue reading
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