#ThrowbackThursday: More Padding in Front

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo 'Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.

To kick off the one-year count down to the ROM’s conference, Cloth Cultures (November 10-12, 2017), which will commemorate Dorothy Burnham’s many legacies, and to mark Canada’s approaching 2017 Sesquicentennial, we will be posting bi-weekly excerpts from Dorothy’s journal of Keep Me Warm One Night. We hope you will enjoy this unofficial glimpse into the bygone days of the ROM, and into the pioneering days of textile studies.

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The blanket cases getting closed.

Betty fixing the petticoats of one of the dresses.

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And it needs a little more padding in front.

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Viv. measuring up before he hangs the McKinnon coverlet.

And its up.

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Freddie & Frank getting the glass on it.

Andy with John hidden behind getting one of the horses over the barricade & into place.