Please note this event will take place at The Museum of Gloucester.
To celebrate Threads 2024 the Museum of Gloucester are opening their doors to give ticket holders the opportunity to view never displayed items from their extensive costume collection. Participants will get to see rare examples of tailored clothes, pins and sewing accoutrement made in the City’s own Westgate Street from the Tudor era to the turn of the 19th century. Other items include a Napoleonic Red Coat, historic uniform and clothing connected with Gloucester’s history.
Collection items you will see include:
- Waterloo Red Coat Tunic
- Historic examples of Westgate tailoring
- Tudor pin
- Westgate pins
- Historic sewing equipment
Threads is a partnership project, curated/coordinated by
Voices Gloucester and Jo Teague, and supported by The Folk of Gloucester, Gloucester Cathedral and the Museum of Gloucester.