Volunteers' Week 2017 - Kidderminster Museum of Carpet
Kidderminster's award-winning Museum of Carpet relies on volunteers, many of them former carpet factory workers. Volunteers Ged, Audrey and Dave share their experiences to mark National Volunteer Week 2017.
Kidderminster Carpets
A Look Inside Tomkinson's Carpets Of Kidderminster
Whistle-stop tour of the Museum of Carpet, Kidderminster
Video made by Luke Thompson and Athena Pickering of Stourport High School whilst on work experience here at the museum. Production date: 18/07/14
Bicester Village launches the British Wool Collective showcasing Brintons carpets
Bicester Village partnered with the Campaign for Wool and the British Fashion Council for the first time with a celebration of all things woolly in the new British Wool Collective pop up boutique. The boutique will be open from Thursday 13 October until January 2017 at Bicester Village.
Brintons has long been a champion of the Campaign for Wool and donated several of its favourite collections to showcase throughout the village as part of the wool collective.
Axminster Power Loom Demonstration
Volunteer Weaver Audrey describes her life as a weaver before running our Axminster Power Loom. Looms demonstrations are at 12noon Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday.
Brintons | From canvas to carpet | Clerkenwell Design Week 2017
This talk explores the creative and technical process of transforming and translating complex designs into Carpet. Emma Cassidy, Head of Creative Design at Brintons and contemporary artist and film maker Shezad Dawood discuss Dawood’s collaboration with the heritage English brand. For the installation Dawood created a triptych from the fabrics and then printed and rendered visual motifs and themes from his own archive of work, across film, painting and sculpture.
The discussion was chaired by freelance writer Suzanne Trocmé and took place in the loading bay of Technique 132-140 Goswell Road.
• Shezad Dawood, Contemporary artist and film maker
• Emma Cassidy, Head of Creative Design Brintons
Chair: British designer, curator and author Suzanne Trocmé
Carpets Beware - Other Colour Pics Share This Title (1955)
Osterley, Middlesex and Kidderminster, Hereford and Worcestershire.
M/S of a woman turning back antique Moslem prayer rugs. C/U of the rugs showing the patterns. Narrator explains how the modern carpet has evolved from these rugs. In a room designed by the great architect Robert Adam at Osterley Park House there is an ornate carpet. A museum attendant shows a visitor how the design of the carpet (made by Adam by Thomas Moore) is picked out in other parts of the room - even the ceiling. Various shots of carpet, chair coverings, wall hangings and the ceiling.
Narrator explains how Western culture has broadened the scope of British carpet design. Simplicity, daring use of colour and line, these are the keynotes of contemporary style. he states. M/S of a designer painting motifs on squared paper. C/U of him loading his brush with paint. C/U of his face as he concentrates on his work. He takes the design over to a set of drawers full of wool samples to select the correct colours. C/U of him pulling out little tufts of wool.
M/S of a woman working at a drawing board counting the coloured squares of a design - each square represents one tuft of wool. C/U of her electronic pen as she taps each square presumably registering how much wool is needed for each colour - painstaking work. L/S of the industrial weaving machines or looms. Various shots of them weaving a piece of carpet.
Domestic interior - a contemporary carpet with a simple design - white boxes on a red background. A woman walks into the room and switches a light on. Narrator mentions how the clean designs of contemporary carpets ally themselves with the simplicity and originality of modern furniture. She sits and flicks through a magazine. Another lounge room is shown with another woman sitting on a comfy chair reading a magazine. She stands up and moves her chair up to meet a half sofa - a modern design. She sits on the sofa with her legs up. Narrator observes how the black of the settee is strikingly effective and fashionable against the severe lines of the carpet. C/Us of the carpet.
M/S of a secretary in an office or showroom - nice simplistic furniture and a modern carpet. A dining room setting features another modern carpet.
Note: nice shots to illustrate furniture and textiles of the mid 1950s.
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Brintons Carpets - Fleece to Floor
We’re passionate about the products we make and the quality we insist upon has been central to Brintons since our humble beginnings back in 1783. To achieve the beautiful, durable carpets we're known for we control every stage of production and source premium quality materials.
This video portrays the lifecycle of our carpets from fleece to floor, from the shearing of the sheep, the dyeing process, to final quality control, inspection and hand finishing.
Brintons Carpets - Fleece to Floor - Commercial
We’re passionate about the products we make and the quality we insist upon has been central to Brintons since 1783. To achieve the beautiful, durable carpets we're known for we control every stage of production and source premium quality materials.
The video portrays the lifecycle of our carpets from fleece to floor, from the shearing of the sheep, the dyeing process, to final quality control inspection and hand finishing.
Brintons Case Study | The Ampersand Hotel, London
World renowned carpet manufacturer Brintons has worked in partnership with architects and interior designers Dexter Moren Associates to supply unique carpets for the prestigious Ampersand Hotel in London.
Working together, Brintons and Dexter Moren created a dramatic collection of intricately ornate designed carpets to complement the hotel’s quintessential British theme, furnishing the guest rooms, corridors and function rooms, as well as helping to create a striking lobby area to welcome guests to the stunning hotel.
The Ampersand is set in a stunning Victorian building, which dates back to 1888 in South Kensington, London. It opened in its modern incarnation in 2012 and design inspiration was taken from surrounding attractions such as the V&A, Royal Albert Hall and the museums of Natural History and Science.
Brintons at the Coronation Festival
To mark the Coronation Festival, Royal Warrant Holders were invited to exhibit at Buckingham Palace gardens between 11th - 14th July 2013. Brintons created a concept and design drawn from a modern take on a 1950's living room.
kidderminster culverts exploration
check out these underground culverts that go under kiddy town centre...
Tying the Knot by Heather Wastie
Heather Wastie is The Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2015/16. In 2013 she was Writer in Residence at the Museum of Carpet, Kidderminster UK, a Midlands town famous for being the centre of the carpet manufacturing industry. In her Weaving Yarns project she interviewed people who once worked in the carpet industry and shaped poems and songs out of their memories. In this film, shot at the Museum of Carpet, she talks to Melvyn Thompson and sings a song called Tying the Knot.
The whole collection of poems, songs and stories is now out in book form, including archive photographs. 'Weaving Yarns' is available from Black Pear Press For more information about the Weaving Yarns project see weavingyarns1.wordpress.com
Film made by White Raven Films
Carpet Factory, 1960's - Film 92315
Carpet factory in Glasgow, Scotland. A man stands in front of a loom inspecting it working, huge rolls of ornately patterned carpet lay behind him, every now and then the man makes an adjustment to the loom. The man adjusting the loom as it moves. Close up of the man's face and hands, he appears to be snipping threads on the loom as it moves, his expression is very serious.
The Best of Kidderminster
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Elderslie Kidderminster school song
Random photos taken from Facebook Group 'Holy Trinity Convent 1960s' added to Movie Maker. Music from the Holy Trinity School Choir September 1997.
BRITISH STEAM - THE SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY
For 16 miles, the Severn Valley Railway follows Britain's longest river, linking gentle countryside and historic towns which are steeped in the relics of our industrial past. From the new Victorian style station at Kidderminster the programme journeys North, using the line's steam locomotives, including the Great Marquess, a K4 class loco. Along the way the visitor can see traditional crafts, such as carpet, rope and clay pipe making. There are also superb stations and viaducts, as well as the ferry at Hampton Loade, a waterwheel at Daniels Mill and the picturesque River Severn itself. At journey's end in Bridgenorth there is a tour of the ancient town and a chance to see the Midland motor museum, before going on to the world famous heritage site at Ironbridge.
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The Carpet Forest
The Carpet Forest commissioned for Kidderminster Arts Festival and created by Jo and Kate Deburgh fromPlanet Art was with music created by Andrew Edwards and funded by Arts Council England
Abandoned historic carpet factory school
Melo explores this old school house on the side of historic carpet factory. This video shows the dangers of urban exploring first hand when Melo falls through a floor