Introducing 776 Pieces of Cloth at Platt Hall 🪡🧵 776 Pieces of Cloth will research and create a shared knowledge, understanding and context around a small but significant collection of textiles held at Platt Hall. The ‘West African’ collection comprises an archive of factory-produced textiles made in Manchester for export to western Africa, along with a smaller number of hand-dyed and printed lengths of cloth made across several west African countries and collected by Manchester manufacturers