Concept Design

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Conceptual Design

The clothing and textile collection includes clothing and textiles produced and used in Victoria’s historical and modern environments. It covers social history, design, manufacturing and craftsmanship.

This series has an in-depth understanding of Victorian clothing and textile design, materials, manufacturing technology and craftsmanship, use and environment, and records people’s reactions to the natural and built environment.

Textiles are defined as plant, animal or synthetic materials that can be manually or mechanically reinforced to form threads, ropes and sheet materials that can be used to produce other products.

Clothing and textiles are an important form of material culture and have also been obtained and explained in other collection areas (such as immigration history, childhood, and public life).

Important sub-collections: Comprehensive products from several major manufacturers in Victoria, some of which no longer exist, including Simpson’s glove factory and Grenoble’s glove line.

INTERWEAVE

1. Interweaving Then, Now & Future - Connecting Past, Present & Future together (Textile, Fashion Art & Design & Food System)

2. Tracing Back Originality and Flinder’s Lane Identity (Textile)

3. Centralised transition point and open space connecting people, river, streets and heritage precinct

4. Juxtaposition to linearirty of Hoddle Grid

5. Continuation of diversity - Mixture of diverse programmes and function into one (Food System)

Land Army woman processing flax at Drouin Flax Mill, Victoria 1944