| Angharad Pearce Jones
Fashion forever goes round and round;
skill once lost is lost forever
The Maritime & Industrial Museum
‘When an industrial legacy has already been immortalised as it has
been in The Abbey Woollen Mill at The Maritime & Industrial Museum,
it is unusual for it to die a second death as will the mill when the museum
closes to become the National Maritime Museum of Wales’.
‘As an industry, weaving laid the foundations for the industrial
revolution, and the binary system that navigates the patterns in the weave
are the blueprints of the world's first computers, leading to the technological
revolution. The work which is suspended above the machinery with The Abbey
Woollen Mill ironically refers to the era, the 1970's, when the mill was
first brought to the museum, challenging the cyclical notion of history,
frivolously repeated in fashions for clothing and interior design and
lacking in the continuity of skills’.
Angharad Pearce Jones 2002
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