The evolution of adidas footwear past and present was presented in all its glory at the adidas SPEZIAL exhibition in Blackburn’s magnificent Cotton Exchange.

Transform and escape the Dogs is a series of works by artist Jamie Holman that was on display at the British Textile Biennial 2019.

Shown at Gawthorpe Hall during the British Textile Biennial 2019, Alice Kettle’s Thread Bearing Witness is a major series of large textiles that consider issues of cultural heritage, refugee displacement and movement, while engaging with individual migrants and their creativity within the wider context of the global refugee crisis.

A century ago it was women’s suffrage, and crusades for peace. Now we have climate emergency, #MeToo, Trump, fracking… and Brexit.

In 2019, three artists showed work that has evolved from Art in Manufacturing residencies co-commissioned by the National Festival of Making and Super Slow Way in factories across the area and re-presented in response to Queen Street Mill.

Jacqui McAssey is working at the forefront of a new wave of feminist publications and initiatives championing underrepresented female football fans, who now make up a quarter of all match going supporters in the English Premier League.

Since 2014, Katab: Not Only Money has worked collaboratively with a group of women artisans in the migrant communities scattered across the city of Ahmedabad, Western India.

Strands of Place and Time explored new perspectives on cultural heritage and migration in response to world textiles in the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection.

From the cotton mills of the Lancashire hills to the big smoke of London, we followed a young mill worker, Annie, as she fought for her right to vote.

The Community Clothing film was a collaboration between this award winning young film maker and designer Patrick Grant’s social enterprise Community Clothing.

Heirloom was a collaborative project between Gawthorpe Textile Collection, Queen Street Mill and Researchers from UCLan and was funded by the Arts Council. UCLan Researchers worked in the mill over summer capturing nostalgic personal histories of men who have links to the textile industry.

Daksha Patel and Anna Ray showed together at Queen Street Mill as part of the Art in Manufacturing 2019 co-commission with the National Festival of Making.

Exploring the T-shirt in the 20th Century, this inspirational exhibition was displayed over two sites, charting the history, culture and subversion of the most affordable and popular item of clothing on the planet.

The Mr X Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch aims to change the way you think about this simple embroidery. There is a pre-conception that cross stitch is an out-of-date pastime where people stitch wistful images of a bygone era, and while that is partly true, it is the tip of the cross-stitched iceberg.

Women from Burnley’s Asian community joined forces with fashion experts at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to create a range of  contemporary headscarves and hijabs, inspired by rare Asian textile samples from the world-class Gawthorpe Textiles Collection.

Reetu Sattar spent  July 2019 in Burnley exploring the cotton industry and the Bangladeshi community’s relationship to it.

Mr Gatty’s Experiment Shed was an installation by Bradford-based artist Claire Wellesley-Smith exploring the layered histories of a former industrial site in Accrington, East Lancashire, the purpose built ‘experiment shed’ of F.A Gatty, 19th century textile industrialist and dye innovator.

Marking 150 years since its grand opening, Material was a unique, one-off night in Accrington’s iconic market hall.