{"id":1806,"date":"2018-04-04T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T11:56:01","slug":"nunnery-gallery-exhibition-traces-the-history-of-textiles-along-the-lea-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Nunnery Gallery Exhibition Traces The History of Textiles Along the Lea Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-startdate field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\" style=\"color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #fdfcfa; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\n<div class=\"field-label\"><span class=\"date-display-start\"><strong>Exhibition dates:<\/strong> Wednesday, April 18, 2018<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0<span class=\"date-display-end\">Sunday, June 24, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-pv field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper\" style=\"color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #fdfcfa; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>: The Nunnery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.85em; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #fdfcfa; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><em>Raw Materials: Textiles<\/em>\u00a0examines the rich and little-known history of textiles along the River Lea Valley.\u00a0The exhibition traces the Lea\u2019s textile history from the 17th Century to the present day, including the production of silk, calico and jute and the invention of dye colours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.85em; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #fdfcfa; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The exhibition, created with the help of a dedicated steering group of volunteers,\u00a0tells the stories of industry through loans and archival material, alongside newly commissioned works by the project\u2019s resident artists Freya Gabie and Sarah Desmarais.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.85em; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #fdfcfa; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><em>Raw Materials: Textiles<\/em>\u00a0highlights a fast disappearing history and includes heritage maps, an online resource and a programme of events including walking and boat tours, artist-led workshops and discussions.\u00a0You can find out\u00a0more on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rawmaterials.bowarts.org\/\">Raw Materials website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raw Materials: Textiles runs from 18 April to June 24 at The Nunnery Gallery, Bow,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FurnishFabricForLOGOonly.jpg?fit=1014%2C406&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GT9s-t8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}