Dryad Basketry: Gallery Handling Session

Event Description

Explore items from the Dryad 'Handicrafts' Press collection

An opportunity to explore the Dryad collection in more detail, and meet with the exhibition's guest curator. 

Around 1918, Harry Peach began a collection of global crafts. He displayed them in his showroom in 42 St Nicholas Street, Leicester, enhancing craft-practice education while selling materials to reproduce the items. A selection of basketry from around the world is currently on display at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery as part of the exhibition Dryad Basketry: A Global Collection.

In the same years, Peach established the Dryad 'Handicrafts' Press, launching an encyclopaedia of booklets and leaflets with instructional texts, diagrams and photographs, illustrating how to make around 40 different crafts. They range from basketry to textiles, painted wooden objects, bone carving, leatherwork and beadwork, to name a few. A selection of these publications, loaned by the University of Leicester's Archives and Special Collections, will be available to view in connection with the exhibition dedicated to Dryad.

Free, drop-in event.

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