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Hat Couture

Stockholm ( S ) 24.10.2025 - 26.10.2026

Hat Couture – royal hat fashion in the Royal Armoury

A colorful exhibition about the imaginative accessory hat. Here you will be shown creative retro hats borne by royal ladies as well as modern creations exclusively borrowed from Princess Christina and Princess Sofia.

The hat was obvious to wear in the mid-20th century – a time that can be described as the golden age of the hat. Colorful pill cans, fancy turbans and flowering creations gave the look that little extra.

Hat Couture – royal hat fashion in the Living Room, royal hats from the museum’s collections are shown for the first time in an exhibition. The headgears have belonged to Queen Louise as well as Princesses Sibylla and Margaretha, and have been used in accordance with the royal dress code in both festive and more mundane contexts.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto ©Jens Mohr, Livrustkammaren/SHM.)

Livrustkammaren
Slottsbacken 3,
111 30 Stockholm
Schweden

weitere Infos: livrustkammaren.se/utstallningar/hatt-couture/

Accessoires

Lerwick ( GB ) > all year

Exhibitions are an essential aspect of our work to provide access to the Collection. They are held annually at the Böd focussing on a theme related to Shetland Textiles, and change every year.

This years main exhibition is called Accessories

We have a wide range of accessories from hats, gloves to underwear. We also have some of the items necessary to produce the garments, spinning wheels, wool winders, glove boards, knitting belts even niddy noddies!

In addition we have a display of work by Deirde Nelson called the dangers of sewing and knitting. This is a small part of an exhibition she produced some years ago, and kindly donated the Shetland elements to our Museum.

In the Loom Room we have a rather splendid Taatit rug and a selection of items knitted in different types of wool.

There is of course the muckle gravit [big scarf] which is going to be 20 years old later this year. We hope as many visitors as possible will add to it.

In our other exhibition we are showcasing the the work of Zena Thomson, a well known and much respected knitter. This shows the range of her talent.

In 1998 she was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II to make a shawl for the Queen to present to the Empress of Japan during the State Visit of the Emperor and the Empress to the UK.

The letters and a copy of the shawl take pride of place in this exhibition.

We are grateful to her family for the loan of this work.

Our main exhibition for 2023 celebrated the union of the home-based machine and hand knitter.

Since the fifties home based knitting machines were common in Shetland homes. Many a Shetlander remembers falling asleep to the background noise of the knitting machine. The knitters were both men and women, and even children who would knit for pocket money. The introduction of these machines back in the thirties helped to preserve and expand traditional Shetland knitting.

Machine knitting gave women the opportunity to be business women with many employing family and neighbours to help produce garments which could be sold privately and not through the local merchants.

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Shetland Textile Museum
Bod of Gremista, Gremista Industrial Estate, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0PX, Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: www.shetlandtextilemuseum.com/about-us/

Accessoires - Objekte der Begierde

Zürich ( CH ) > 18.07.2025 - 12.04.2026

Accessoires waren schon immer mehr als blosse Dekoration: Hüte, Foulards, Handschuhe, Taschen und Schuhe spiegeln soziale, politische und religiöse Zugehörigkeiten, demonstrieren Macht und Status, schützen und formen den Körper oder stehen für modischen Fortschritt. Die Ausstellung zeigt anhand von Objekten aus der Sammlung des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums, wie Accessoires vom gesellschaftlichen Wandel geprägt sind. Von den strikten Kleidervorschriften der frühen Neuzeit bis zum Spiel mit den Geschlechternormen der Gegenwart wirft die Ausstellung einen Blick auf Modegeschichte «von Kopf bis Fuss».

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Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum Landesmuseum Zürich Museumstrasse 2
Zürich
Schweiz

weitere Infos: www.landesmuseum.ch/accessoires#ausstellung

Draped – Art of Printed Fabrics

Espoo ( FI )> 12.02.2025 - 14.03.2027

Draped is an exhibition dedicated to printed fabrics – an artform that drapes our homes, bodies, and memories. Patterns and colour combinations arranged on fabric intertwine with our lives. They serve to touch, communicate, convey, remember, and remind. Through them, we create identities and individuality, along with comfort and a sense of belonging. 

Printed fabric plays a central role in the history, present day, and future of Finnish design. The exhibition showcases printed fabrics by 31 designers, spanning from the 1930s to today. Familiar patterns are viewed from an artistic perspective, with a special focus on the 1950s to 1980s, a period when fabric design in Finland expanded and began gaining international acclaim.  

Alongside beloved classics, the exhibition also features textiles from lesser-known yet extraordinary designers. Both hand-printed and industrially produced fabrics are showcased, blending artistic expression with technical innovation.

The exhibition opens in a space surrounded by the Bryk & Wirkkala visible storage, where changing exhibitions bring the life’s work of Rut Bryk and Tapio Wirkkala into dialogue with design classics and contemporary artists.

Draped – Art of Printed Fabric consists of work by: Jalmari Aarnio, Rut Bryk, Maija Fagerlund, Viola Gråsten, Pirkko Hammarberg, Saara Hirvisalo, Fujiwo Ishimoto, Maija Isola, Kaarina Kellomäki, Juhani Konttinen, Raili Konttinen, Emilia Kuurila, Maija Lavonen, Aino Marsio-Aalto, Marjatta Metsovaara, Vuokko Nurmesniemi, Matti Pikkujämsä, Markku Piri, Lena Rewell, Eero Rislakki, Jenni Rope, Maarit Salolainen, Pi (Ann-Mari) Sarpaneva, Timo Sarpaneva, Anna Semi, Howard Smith, Nana (Anneli) Suni, Eva Taimi, Anja Terho, Edward Terzibasiyan and Tapio Wirkkala. Also presented are works pieces from Aalto University’s New Landscapes in Textile Design project.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto © Ari Karttunen )

Espoo Museum of modern Art
EMMA
Exhibition Centre WeeGee
Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola
Espoo
Finland

weitere Infos: emmamuseum.fi/en/exhibitions/draped-art-of-printed-fabrics/

Tafelgoed, tafelbeter

Tilbourg ( NL ) >24 .05.2025 -10. 01.2027

Setting the table sustainably

Diaper damask - a simple form of damask - was one of the inspirations to develop a new, everyday tableware for our own label. For the design, we invited Eindhoven-based Envisions. But we gave them and ourselves an additional challenge: Make a product as sustainable as possible. In this expo, we show this extensive design process.

n the past, fabrics were not designed with sustainability in mind as we increasingly do now. Yet textiles from back then can be insightful for sustainable ambitions today. To develop new sustainable tableware for the label by TextielMuseum, the designers of Envisions drew inspiration from historical diaper damask from the TextielMuseum's collection.

The exhibition shows the tableware of the past that inspires today's designers, how a sustainable design comes about and the considerations involved. The central question is: what can we learn from the textiles of the past, and how can we set the table even better?

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto :© Patty van den Elsout)

textiel Museum Textil Lab
Goirkestraat 96
5046 GN Tilburg
Niederlande

weitere Infos: textielmuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/setting-the-table-sustainably

Reboot Fashion

Borås ( S ) > Dauerausstellung

This exhibition explores the path towards a circular textile future through innovative production methods, while also inviting individuals to engage and influence change.

The fashion industry needs a reboot. Clothing and fashion are fun, creative, and a way to communicate. At the same time, the global textile and fashion industry is a threat to people, the environment, and the climate. Low prices and persuasive advertising lead to overflowing wardrobes. The textile industry consumes significant amounts of natural resources, creates pollution, and in many countries, working conditions are poor. It is a problem without easy solutions. A fundamental change is needed from both companies and consumers.

The Reboot Fashion exhibition presents examples of innovative thinking from companies and researchers within the industry, along with practical tips on how to care for your wardrobe to make it more sustainable. The exhibition also presents examples from history, underscoring the sustainable thinking that was once ingrained in society.

The new permanent exhibition will be a forward-looking complement to the two existing permanent exhibitions, Textile Power and Clothes & Couture, which chronicle the textile industry's impact on Borås's development and the evolution of fashion in the 20th century.

Reboot Fashion provides insight into the climate and environmental impact of fashion, but also shows that everyone can do something to improve the situation.
Production

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto :  Photo:© Ea Czyz)

Textielmuseet
Textil Fashion Center
Skaraborgsvägen 3A,
Borås
Schweden

weitere Infos: textilmuseet.se/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/2024-05-07-reboot-fashion

Das Provenzalische Trachten- und Schmuckmuseum

Grasse ( F ) > Dauerausstellung

Das Museum für Provenzalische Trachten und Schmuck befindet sich am Eingang zur Altstadt von Grasse im einstigen Wohnsitz der Marquise von Cabris, der Schwester von Mirabeau. In dem vornehmen, geschichtsträchtigen Anwesen, in dem nicht länger das rege Treiben des früher hier untergebrachten Revolutionstribunals herrscht, liegt rund um ein wunderschönes Treppenhaus verteilt eine Reihe kleiner gemütlicher Salons, die Besucher zum Flanieren einladen.

Das Museum zeigt heutzutage eine Sammlung, die aufgrund der Qualität und der Vielfalt der Kleidungs- und Schmuckstücke, die aus dem 18. bis Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts stammen, einzigartig ist: Röcke, Caracos, Korsetts, Droulets (Art Trachtenjacke), Chatelaines, Kreuze, Ohrringe, usw. Das bahnbrechende Museum ist heute eines der ganz wenigen, die ausschließlich traditionellen Kleidungs- und Schmuckstücken aus der Vergangenheit der Provence gewidmet ist.

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FRAGONARD PARFUMEUR
2 rue Jean Ossola
06130 Grasse
Frankreich

weitere Infos: usines-parfum.fragonard.com/de/museen/das-provenzalische-trachten-und-schmuckmuseum/

Bonnet Silk Museum

Jujurieux (F) > Dauerausstellung

Discover the wealth of fabrics, the secrets of their manufacture and the trades that brought them to life at the Musée des Soieries Bonnet. A multicolored, shimmering heritage, a piece of working-class life and an industrial history emblematic of the Lyon region. The museum invites you on a journey between the sensuality of the materials and the exceptional skills of the weavers, spinners and seamstresses. Close to the capital of silk and its famous Canuts, this boarding mill wove miles of delicate silks, rich taffetas, fragile muslins… sumptuous, shimmering fabrics that made fashion from the mid-19th to the early 21st century. Bonnet silks have inspired the greatest haute couture houses, from Dior to Chanel, from Yves Saint-Laurent to Lanvin, from Lacroix to Valentino… You’ll be dazzled by the beauty and richness of the fabrics and garments on display at the museum, veritable works of art celebrating the excellence of an internationally recognized savoir-faire.

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Bonnet Silk Factories
19 bis rue Claude Joseph Bonnet, Parking Place Marcel GRILLET,
01640 Jujurieux
Frankreich

The Art of Transformation

Oslo (N) > Dauerausstellung

Discover treasures from our collection of costumes and stage design models, spanning from 18th century Christiania through interwar Paris and up to our own time. On stage, anything is possible! Through the illusions made by the actors and the audience’s imaginations, time and space are transformed: an ordinary woman becomes a supernatural being, and decorative buttons turn into gems. In this exhibition, you can see original props and costumes used in historical plays by well-known writers such as Ludvig Holberg and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Original stage design models from productions of Ibsen and Shakespeare plays demonstrate how scenography has changed over time.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite ( Foto : © Mari Rosenberg )

The Theatre Museum
Halvdan Svartes gate 58
Oslo
Norwegen

weitere Infos: www.oslomuseum.no/en/whats-on/the-art-of-transformation/

The Goldberger

Budapest (H) > Dauerausstellung (ab Mai 2025)

The new permanent exhibition "Goldberger ..." demonstrates the plant that once began as manufactory with only a few people working there, which successive generations of the family constantly modernized and developed unti l products from the factory were world-renowned. Only the name was preserved the same after decades of nationalization and not the factory's former splendour. The exhibit offers numerous interactive elements for the visitors while visiting the factory. We hope to make textile printing technology and the development of the textile industry more understandable to them. The selection commemorates the Goldberger Company via documents, sample books, photos and paintings. The choice of topic was given: the first workshop owned by the family opened in the present museum building at the end of the 18th century.  The exhibition presents the technical development of textile press from the guilds to nowadays. Textile pressing means the coloring and patterning of textile with tools. It all goes back to primitive traditions: primitives colored and ornamented their own bodies with tools made of pumpkins, wood etc.Pressed textile was already made in the antiquity in the East. They applied pigment grains mixed with glue on the textile. Nevertheless, textile pressing first appeared in 1702 in Europe.The first blue dyer workshop opened at the end of the 17th century in Hungary. By the 18-19th century, blue dyers were present in many towns of the country. They used press stilts: They put a kind of mash on the textile which was removed after the coloring dried. Thus, the pattern remained on the textile. The products of blue dyer workshops are still very popular nowadays. Howe, handiwork was taken over by the so-called perr¬otin machine. It moves the textile and the stilt in varied order. This type of machine is still in operation in a few of the workshops. Industrial textile was revolutionized by the invention of Thomas Bell, England, 1783. Textile production became unbroken. The cylinder press machines first came to Hungary in the end of the 19th century and were in operation until 1980's. A new invention concerning textile coloring came in the 20th century. The silk industry in Lyon applied a Japanese technology. It was realized in the 1930-40's. This technology dispersed around the 1960’s in Hungary. The demand, however, required new inventions. The rotation film press was invented around the 1950's. The technique that is applied nowadays dispersed in the 1960's in Hungary. The store of the Fibre Museum holds several large machines used in textile production. They will be shown in the exhibition ward to be reconstructed. In the meantime, scale models, original sewing machines and authentic copies will present techniques used in textile production continue

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Veranstalter/ Ort
Museum of Textil And Clothing Industry (Textilmuseum)
1036, Budapest Lajos u. 138.
Ungarn

weitere Infos: www.museum.hu/museum/85/Museum_of_Textil_And_Clothing_Industry_Textilmuseum/actual