Talks & Seminars
Finding the Thread: Exeter’s Georgian Carpet & Cloth Industries
Join Historian Todd Gray for an illustrated lecture revealing the economic vitality of an industry on which the city’s economy was built.
Woollen cloth was Exeter's principal export for more than five centuries but it survived only through continual skill, enterprise and ingenuity. The surprising discovery of a collection of more than two thousand samples of Exeter cloth allows us a window into the world of Georgian cloth-making.
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