silk – Huguenot Museum

Ben Marsh, Unravelled Dreams: The Challenges of Growing Silk in New Worlds c.1500-1840

Join us for a fascinating talk with Dr Ben Marsh from the University of Kent on attempts to grow silk in the Americas and England. One of the greatest hopes of early colonialism was that Atlantic settlers would be able to locate new sources of raw silk to satisfy the boundless desire for luxurious fabrics […]

The Story of an Exhibition: Beginning the Research for Canterbury & Catwalk

May 12, 2016March 30, 2018 by Vikki

Fragment of silk woven by the Duthoit Family, image courtesy of Canterbury Museums

Emily Fuggle, Museum director and curator of our current display Huguenot Silk: Canterbury and Catwalk talks about starting the research for this exhibition: In the 1870s Jonathan Duthoit, who was a director at the French Hospital, donated several items to the hospital. One of these was a firescreen, paneled with eighteenth-century silk from his family’s […]

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Ben Marsh, Unravelled Dreams: The Challenges of Growing Silk in New Worlds c.1500-1840

The Story of an Exhibition: Beginning the Research for Canterbury & Catwalk

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