Crafts Study Centre - The University Museum of Modern Crafts

The Collection as a Narrative in the Crafts

Linda Brassington in CSC Research Library

This paper by Linda Brassington is part of a programme of pedagogic research considering collections and archives in education.

  1. Abstract
  2. Background - a digital resource
  3. Historical Sources - a basis for technical research
  4. Colonialism - or a search for spirituality in the crafts?
  5. The Otherness of Craft
  6. The French Cloak - a symbol of the tourist gaze?
  7. Destruction and Reconstruction
  8. English Eccentrics - or a response to modernism?
  9. Collecting - a global perspective


Linda Brassington is Senior Lecturer in Printed Textiles at the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, and Teaching Fellow 2005-06. © Linda Brassington 2005.