Thanks to the HeadsUP project, we now have brand new How To guides for volunteers, Museum Assistants and Officers to help us answer collection enquiries […]
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One of the joys of this restoration project is finding out more about the wonderful machines. Not just what part they played in the hat
My name is Jade and I’m a Museum Assistant based at Bramall Hall, a stunning Elizabethan manor house in Stockport. While my role is
Restoration of our hatting machines has been funded by a grant from the Association for Industrial Archaeology. We thought you’d like to know more about
This is the question that The Textile Society recently asked us. We applied for their museum award to display our most unusual collection of hats.
In today’s, modern office environment, we might occasionally tidy our desk or clean our PC screen. And if something broke down, we’d probably get in an expert or phone an IT helpline.
How good would it be to feel the vibration and hear the rattle of Victorian hatting machines working on the factory floor again? Well it’s full
This stylish woman is Elizabeth Maude Jolly, known to her friends and family as Maude. A few years ago, Hat Works were kindly gifted a
A big ‘Hat Works’ welcome to creative arts organisation, Arc, who have moved in to Level 2 this week. They had outgrown their former premises
You may have read that big things are afoot at Hat Works. Well work began in earnest on the 1st of October to pack our