Warner Textile Archive
Located in the heart of Braintree, Essex, the Warner Textile Archive is the country’s second largest collection of flat textiles, and narrates the rich history of a great British industry from its roots in the late eighteenth century to the flourishing success of Warner & Sons in the twentieth century.
The collection contains nearly 100,000 textile and wallpaper samples, paper designs, documents and other industry records representing two centuries of creativity and commerce.
Venue Type:
Archive, Museum
Additional info
Free parking including space for coaches and mini buses. Ramp to entrance, visitors' toilets.
British jacquard hand weaving from 1821- 1971, printed and woven fabric produced by Warner & Sons between 1870 - 1970, wallpaper archive, point papers spanning 1790 - 1971, paper designs for printed and woven fabric dating from 1851, printing blocks dating between 1860 - 1939, assorted ephemera and photographs, collection of European and non-European textiles from all over the world dating from 1700s
Collection details
Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Design, Fine Art, Industry, Personalities, Social History, Trade and Commerce
Key artists and exhibits
- John Aldridge
- Edward Bawden
- Vanessa Bell
- Walter Crane
- Marion Dorn
- James Fitton
- William Folliott
- Alec Hunter
- Owen Jones
- William Morris
- Marianne Straub
- A.W.N Pugin
- Arthur Silver
- Bruce Talbot
- C.F.A Voysey
Warner Textile Archive
Warners Mill
Silks Way
Braintree
Essex
CM7 3GB
England
Website
The official website of the Warner Textile Archive
www.warnertextilearchive.co.uk
info@warnertextilearchive.co.uk
Telephone
Reception/general enquiries
01376 557741
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