"We want visitors to the new Clothworkers’ Centre to have the same experience studying fashion and textiles as they do when viewing fine art in our public study room or visiting our library.”
The new Clothworkers’ Centre forms part of the V&A’s ambitious FuturePlan and will release spaces previously used as storage at South Kensington for public galleries.
Textiles and fashion will continue to be displayed in temporary exhibitions and in permanent galleries at the V&A, notably in the Fashion Gallery, which presents around 100 outfits arranged chronologically to reflect the quality and breadth of the V&A’s collections.
Some of the Museum’s finest tapestries, embroideries and furnishing silks can be seen in the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries and important carpets, chintz, lace and rare fashion items in the British Galleries. The Tapestry Gallery shows the magnificent Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, the only great hunting tapestries to have survived from the 15th century and many superb textiles from China, Japan, Korea, South Asia and the Islamic world are on display in the Asian galleries.
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