Threads: Behind the Scenes of the Museum of Gloucester Costume Collection

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

This event is free, however booking is required. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Bookings for this event will close on the morning of Saturday 21st September.

The event forms part of Threads 2024, an annual heritage textiles programme, now entering its third year, that celebrates the rich textile history of the City. Two trailblazing projects 'Belonging and Unbelonging' and 'Beating back the past' can be viewed in the Cathedral during Cathedral opening hours in September.

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.