On your marks, get set, go!
Explore sportswear through the years in our special
display. Discuss fabric choices and create an original design
for 2012. (90 minute activity)
Investigating Pattern
A 90-minute art
activity session exploring textile patterns from different times.
follow the pattern trail, investigate how pattern works in fabric
and create a new design for an item of clothing. Great for
Individual Needs groups: 1-hour sessions available.
Accessorize
Explore shoes, hats and bags from different times. Examine a
range of accessories and produce a design.
Down the Decades
Explore fashion from the 20th century in
our special displays. Create a fashion design using
collage based on your sketches in the exhibition.
World War II - 90min session
What did you do in the War?
Assembly Rooms. Pupils will investigate local wartime life using
primary and secondary sources in a building devastated by wartime
bombing.
Try on Replica Victorian sporting
costumes.

Examples from the Accessorize activity
made by pupils from Hanford school.

A patterned evening dress from the
collection