Creative Inspiration Workshop: Jewellery Meets Textiles
- Date
- 06 Mar 2025 · 2:00PM - 4:00PM
- Price
- Standard £20, Student £12 (8 places)
- Venue
- The Goldsmiths' Company Library, Goldsmiths' Hall
- Programme type
- Workshops
Dress and jewellery have historically gone hand in hand as part of the continued human desire for expression and self-adornment. The Goldsmiths’ Company’s Library and Archive has a rich collection of design drawings, workbooks, books and ephemera which reveal how different jewellers and designers from the late 19th century to today have explored the dynamic relationship between jewellery and textiles.
Join the Library and Archive team to discover how jewellers took inspiration directly from elements of dress to create jewelled bows, ribbons and lace-like collars. These exquisite designs can be viewed in drawings and workbooks by jewellers Paul Podolsky, James Walker and Hancocks / E. Wolfe & Co. Through an array of books and materials, explore how textile techniques and the use of non-precocious metals and unconventional materials influenced a new generation of designers including Caroline Broadhead and David Poston, whose ideas-driven practice was at the centre of the New Jewellery Movement of the 1970s.
There will be the opportunity to see, handle, photograph and draw a range of this unique archive material from the collection to spark your inspiration.
This workshop coincides with the exhibition Interwoven: Jewellery Meets Textiles on view at the Goldsmiths’ Centre from 9 January until 3 April 2025. This show explores the relationship between contemporary jewellery and textiles, through the work of over thirty jewellers, made in the last forty years. To purchase the catalogue, please click here.
Image credit: James Walker Archive, The Goldsmiths' Company Library