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MCCAW ALLAN – A TEA TOWEL COLLECTION
The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre
03300561025
9.30am-4.30pm
Free Admission

This colourful exhibition, curated by contemporary artist Robert Peters and Douglas Mowbray [Purchase Manager, Samuel Lamont & Sons Ltd.], showcases the tea towel designs of the Lurgan textile company McCaw Allan. Within the exhibition over 200 tea towel designs are displayed, along with original design drafts and sketches. The designs, eye-popping colours and finishing of the tea towels are an enduring tribute to the creativity and skill of McCaw Allan workforce, while also offering an insight into changing social norms, tastes and manufacturing processes over the past 50+ years.