Principles and pilfering: Nottingham lace design pedagogy
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 44 - 699306
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/14759756.2019.1646496
- Title of journal
- Textile
- Article number
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- First page
- 12
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1475-9756
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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C - Fashion and Textiles Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper explores the lace design pedagogy that developed in Nottingham’s School of Art during the first half of the twentieth century. The research primarily drew on materials in the Nottingham Trent Lace Archive which show a learning process influenced both by the national education system and the local lace industry. The educational aspects of this material was previously unresearched. Given the concurrent development of design education in modernising cultures across the world, and the export of textile technology from the UK, it has implications for understanding national and international histories of design education.
This primary research in the Lace Archive and the Nottinghamshire Archives demonstrated that a particular portfolio of student drawings contained pieces which had been sent for external examination. It included work that copied designs from Owen Jones’s ‘Grammar of Ornament’, drawings from memory and composite designs for lace. Although most of the student names had been erased, for examination purposes, it was possible to identify one student in the Art School records at Nottinghamshire Archives. The authors’ knowledge of the lace designing and draughting processes meant it was possible to ‘read’ the collection of lace draughts in the Lace Archive to understand what the students were being directed to study through them.
This analysis of student drawings and lace draughts demonstrates how lace design was taught and supports the paper’s conclusion that lace design pedagogy encompassed the 'principles' of design, the 'technique' of design and the 'business' of design. The materials in the Nottinghamshire Archive also revealed the complex relationship between the aims of the Art School and the needs of the Lace Industry for which the students were being trained.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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