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Heriot-Watt University’s
textile archive and museum collection, housed at its Scottish
Borders Campus, Galashiels, is internationally recognised as
a resource for the history of design and fashion from the 18th
century to the present. The collection is an important resource
for economic, social and local history and an inspiration for
rising generations of new designers and established textile
companies. The archive also charts the evolution of textile
education at Galashiels from 1887 to the present. The collection
is complemented by resources in the campus library, which include
journals 1877 – 1995, such as the Textile Manufacturer
and the Wool Record, plus other related monographs and publications.
Collections include:
- Shepherds’ plaids and clan tartans
- Paisley shawls collection, many woven in Edinburgh
- R & A Sanderson & Co Ltd, woollen textile manufacturers,
Galashiels, who made tweeds and fabrics worn by the royal
family, 1853-1956
- Bernat Klein, woollen and synthetic textile manufacturer,
Galashiels, 1970-1983
- Donald Brothers Ltd, Dundee, linen, canvas and furniture
fabric manufacturers, 1896-1980
- Robert Stocks & Co. Ltd, cloth merchants and manufacturers,
Kirkcaldy, 1811-1958
- Stone and Kemp, silk manufacturers, London, 1845-1846
- R & A Sanderson & Co Ltd, woollen textile manufacturers,
Galashiels, 1853-1956
- Roberts & Son, woollen textile manufacturers,
- Peter Anderson Ltd, woollen textile manufactures, Galashiels,
1874-1946
- Blenkhorn Richardson & Co Ltd, woollen manufacturers,
Hawick, 1881-1974
- Hopes of Stow, drapers, Stow, 1918-1966
- Scottish Woollen Trademark Association advertising material
and newspaper cuttings, 1924-1945
- Gibson & Lumgair Ltd, woollen textile manufacturers,
Selkirk, 1938-1968
- Walter Lumsden & Co. Ltd, merchant and cloth manufacturer,
Kirkcaldy, 1956-1971
- Ebenezer Y Johnston, woollen textile manufacturer, Galashiels,
1960-1970
- Brown Brothers Ltd, woollen textile manufacturers, Galashiels,
1967-1971
- Gardiners of Selkirk
- Galashiels Manufacturers’ Corporation.
- Robert Macdonald Scott textile designs
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