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Workshop on: TEXTILE FRAGMENTS: Incomplete Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses will take place at the University of Wolverhampton on 12 June 2014The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/fragments.htm The programme includes:Rachel Boak, The National Trust, ‘”A fine lot of old velvet”: the Rothschild taste for textile fragments at Waddesdon Manor’ Judith Carmel-Arthur, ‘Hannah Gubbay: the fragmentary story of a woman textile enthusiast and collector of significance’ Jacqueline Hyman and Anita Forth, The Textile Restoration Studio, ‘What’s behind your wall? Hidden garments found in Bolton’ Sarah Jane Kenyon, Adorned In Trimmings Lisa Mason, National Museums Scotland, ‘The Design Process: The Bernat Klein Archive, National Museums Scotland’ Gina Pierce, London Metropolitan University, ‘The influence of the Parker Knoll Company on the textile manufacturing industry, and on the furniture purchasing choices made by the British public, 1930-50’ Maj Ringgaard, National Museum of Denmark, ‘Stockings from the dump: evidence of professional stocking repairs from early modern Copenhagen The workshop will take place in room MC228, Millennium City Building, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton City Campus.The fee is £18. For further information and to register, please see the workshop web-pages, at: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/fragments.htm Or contact Laura Ugolini, at: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk or Margaret Ponsonby, at M.Ponsonby@wlv.ac.uk --