Edith Durham & others @ Two Temple Place

Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles celebrates seven pioneering women who saw beyond the purely functional, to reveal the extraordinary artistic, social and cultural importance of textiles, and costume, which gives us a beautiful and intensely human insight into our history.

This major collaborative project explores the innovative approaches of Edith Durham (1863 –1944), Louisa Pesel (1870 – 1947), Olive Matthews (1887 – 1979),  Muriel Rose (1897 – 1986), Enid Marx (1902 – 1998), Jennifer Harris (1982-2016), Nima Poovaya-Smith  (1985-1998), and presents objects from a previously unexplored perspective: that of the female collector, rather than exclusively as the maker.