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2023

Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery

Start Date 08 July 2023
End Date 29 October 2023
Venue Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge
Location Cambridge, UK
Curator Rachel Dedman

2015

Ya Hafeth Ya Ameen

Start Date 18 November 2015
End Date 28 February 2017
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

Golden Threads of Bethlehem

Start Date 26 January 2015
End Date 28 March 2015
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

2017

Woven: the Art of Traditional Weavings in Jordan

Start Date 28 November 2017
End Date 06 April 2018
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

2021

Syrian Glory: Costume Exhibition in Honour of a Nation

Start Date 01 January 2021
End Date 31 August 2023
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

2022

Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen

Start Date 16 September 2022
End Date 01 January 2023
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery in collaboration with Textilmuseum St. Gallen
Location New York, USA
Curator Emma Cormack, Ilona Kos and Michele Majer

2016

What I Like Molly Goddard

Start Date 04 November 2016
End Date 22 February 2017
Venue NOW Gallery
Location London, U.K.
Curator Molly Goddard and Jemima Burrill
Designer Molly Goddard
View of gallery from the street outside. Through the window are a range of pink, organge and yellow tulle dresses hung at different heights. A row of chairs are placed by the window.

1977

Fashions of Embroidery

Start Date 10 December 1977
End Date 30 April 1978
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, U.S.A
Curator Elsie McGarvey

1998

Ecclesiastical Vestments from the 14th through the 18th Century

Start Date 23 June 1998
End Date 18 April 1999
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, U.S.A
Curator Dilys Blum

2010

Haute Couture: Voici Paris

Start Date 20 February 2010
End Date 06 June 2010
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location Netherlands
Designer Maarten Spruyt

2023

The Offbeat Sari

Start Date 19 May 2023
End Date 17 September 2023
Venue Design Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Priya Khanchandani
Seven saris are displayed on a white tiered plinths in a variety of poses. The sari at the back is made from an elongated piece of yellow fabric which is draped on two drawers above the display.

2019

Weavers of the Clouds: Textile Arts of Peru

Start Date 21 June 2019
End Date 08 September 2019
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Claudia Trosso, supported by Martin Morales
Six Peruvian outfits displayed in pairs on mannequins on white plinths against sheer grey material

2022

150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework: Crown to Catwalk

Start Date 01 April 2022
End Date 04 September 2022
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Dennis Nothdruft in collaboration with Dr Susan Kay-Williams

2023

Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain

Start Date 11 February 2023
End Date 11 June 2023
Venue Compton Verney Museum and Art Gallery
Location Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Curator Simon Costin, Amy de la Haye and Mellany Robinson
Designer Simon Costin, Museum of British Folklore
A partnership with Museum of British Folklore, the Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London and Compton Verney.
Made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Mannequins dressed embellished horse collar and hat from the Boy's Ploughing Match and The Festival of the Horse costume from the Orkney Islands

2022

Silhouettes by Yasmina Ajbilou

Start Date 27 August 2022
End Date 27 November 2022
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Curator Yasmina Ajbilou
Exhibition installation shot of mannequin with colourful crafted cape in multitude of textures. The mannequin is reflected in an adjacent perspex screen

2019

Guldnakke

Start Date 19 February 2019
End Date 28 July 2019
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Alexandra Sachs
Exhibition with three images on two walls in a dimly lit room.

2012

Looking Back to the Future: Ralph Rucci Evolved

Start Date 19 May 2012
End Date 16 September 2012
Venue SCAD Museum of Art
Location Savannah, Georgia USA

2016

String Theory: Textiles from the Permanent Collection

Start Date 30 April 2016
End Date 16 October 2016
Venue Springfield Art Museum
Location Springfield, USA
Curator Greta Russell and Rachel Johnson

2011

The Finishing Touch: Women’s Accessories 1830–1940

Start Date 27 May 2011
End Date 11 December 2011
Venue Lady Lever Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK
Designer Val Evans Design
Exhibition display of hats in case

2010

Textile Treasures from 17th to 19th Centuries

Start Date 15 March 2010
End Date 2010
Venue Maidstone Museum
Location Kent, UK

2011

Support and Seduction: Three Hundred Years of Underwear

Start Date 28 May 2011
End Date 13 May 2012
Venue Snibston Discovery Park
Location Leicester, UK

2002

This Work in Hand: Philadelphia Needlework from the 18th Century

Start Date 31 August 2002
End Date 12 January 2002
Venue Winterthur, Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2022

The Needle’s I: Stitching Identity

Start Date 17 September 2022
End Date 2022
Venue Winterthur, Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2021

People Living in the Mountains

Start Date 30 January 2021
End Date 28 March 2021
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin

2005

Making Fancy: Materials and Methods in Pennsylvania German Fraktur

Start Date 10 September 2005
End Date 08 January 2006
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2021

Broderie (Embroidery)

Start Date 2021
End Date 19 December 2021
Venue Musée de la Mode
Location Albi, Tarn, Occitanie, France

2018

Embroidery: The Thread of History

Start Date 05 October 2018
End Date 05 January 2019
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2014

En Tous Points Parfaits (In Every Way Perfect)

Start Date 05 May 2014
End Date 24 December 2014
Venue Musée de la Visitation
Location Moulins, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon

2011

De L’ombre À La Lumière (From The Shadow To The Light)

Start Date 07 May 2011
End Date 24 December 2011
Venue Musee de la Visitation
Location Moulins, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon
Exhibition display of perspex and red cases containing objects

The Plimoth Jacket: A Paradise in Silk and Gold

Start Date 03 September 2011
End Date 08 January 2012
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA
Trio of images of Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Whitework Embroideries

Start Date 01 May 2015
End Date December 2015
Venue Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace
Location Molesey, UK

2011

Costume Drama: Fashion From 1780–1850

Start Date 08 July 2011
End Date 07 May 2012
Venue Sudley House
Location Liverpool, UK

2019

The Georgian Edit: Cutting-Edge Fashion of the Eighteenth Century

Start Date 23 August 2019
End Date 31 December 2019
Venue Fairfax House
Location York, UK

2016

Stitch Stitch Stitch

Start Date 10 September 2016
End Date 29 January 2017
Venue Discovery Museum
Location Newcastle, UK

2018

Miao Costumes in Guizhou

Start Date March 2018
End Date May 2018
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China

2007

Colour and Light: Embroidery from India and Pakistan

Start Date 1 January 2007
End Date 8 July 2007
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Dale Gluckman
Exhibition display of dress hung in front of textile panel against blue wall

2013

Painted Pomp: Art and Fashion in the Age of Shakespeare

Start Date 26 January 2013
End Date 06 May 2013
Venue Holburne Museum
Location Bath, UK

2010

Sunday’s Child: Heirlooms from the Embroiderers Guild

Start Date 29 May 2010
End Date 18 July 2010
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia

2015

Elaborate Embroidery: Fabrics for Menswear before 1815

Start Date 02 February 2015
End Date 19 July 2015
Venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Exhibition display of cabinet containing fabric samples

2014

Exquisite Threads:
English Embroidery 1600s-1900s

Start Date 2 April 2014
End Date 12 July 2015
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Roger Leong

2013

A Century of Cotton: Selections from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection, 1800–1900

Start Date 12 February 2013
End Date 13 July 2013
Venue Museum at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Kevin Jones and Christina Johnson

2015

Fleurs: Botanicals in Dress from the Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection

Start Date 21 July 2015
End Date 19 December 2015
Venue FIDM
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Kevin Jones

2008

The Art of the Embroiderer

Start Date 25 September 2008
End Date 31 December 2009
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Anne Bissonnette

2016

Embroidery on Knits

Start Date 24 September 2016
End Date 15 January 2017
Venue Textil Museet
Location Boras, Sweden