Video: Lancashire Textile Treasures — creating a new gallery online

Lancashire’s Textile Treasures was a two-year collaborative project that used heritage textiles as a catalyst for engaging and upskilling local communities to become digital community curators for a new online Lancashire Textile Gallery. The project explored the cultural significance of textiles, learning from participants, creating connections, and drawing out personal, cultural, social and heritage-based stories.

A collection of patchwork quilts alongside cotton and scissors.
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A collection of patchwork quilts alongside cotton and scissors.

Video: Lancashire Textile Treasures — creating a new gallery online

Rachel Midgley, Curator at the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, and Bev Lamey, Community Engagement Officer, tell the story of the Lancashire Textile Treasures project.  

This recording has English subtitles and is 11 minutes in length.



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A collection of patchwork quilts alongside cotton and scissors.

Using WhatsApp in a community engagement project

Lancashire Textiles Treasures used the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection and other museum collections and heritage organisations in Lancashire as a catalyst for engaging and upskilling its diverse local communities to become digital community curators for a new online Lancashire Textile Gallery. It was important to build relationships, share information and encourage collaboration with participants. The project team used WhatsApp as a communications tool with participants between in-person sessions.

 

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Collaboration Digital volunteers
Published: 2023
Resource type: Case studies


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