An exhibition celebrating ‘The Splendid Silks of China’ has been opened at Macclesfield Silk Museum.
The show has been organised by Macclesfield Decorative Fine Arts Soceity (DFAS). It includes a selection from the museum’s seldom seen, but very rich archive of Chinese silks and artefacts.
It also includes work from students from Fallibroome Academy and Beech Hall School, which the Macclesfield DFAS have sponsored to produce work based on the archive.
The exhibition was opened Coun Alift Harewood Jones and Susan Sellers, the High Sheriff of Cheshire, who is a former chairman of the DFAS, and presented the students who produced the best work with their prizes.
Margaret Robertson, chairman of the Macclesfield DFAS, said: “Mrs Sellers was impressed by the very high standard of the student’s work– they could certainly be said to have taken on the challenge.”
The exhibition is a collaboration between the Silk Museum and Macclesfield Decorative & Fine Arts Society, which meets monthly at the Heritage Centre.
It runs until July 24.
