An exhibition of fashion inspired by historic Yorkshire clothing and Bradford’s textile heritage has opened at Salts Mill as part of the tenth annual Saltaire Festival .

The display, by Yorkshire Fashion Archive and The Woolmark Company, features garments by students and staff at the School of Design, Leeds University, using wool.

Students have re-worked traditional clothing from the archive, which have been donated to the exhibition, with images, information and anecdotes from the last 100 years about the original clothing and those who wore it. The exhibition, which opened at Salts Mill yesterday runs until September 16.

Meanwhile, historians are hoping to unearth new information about working life in Salts Mill.

An extensive photographic exhibition of 50 black-and-white images will tell the story of a single day in 1953 when more than 1,000 mill workers took a trip to Blackpool to celebrate the centenary of the mill.

Exhibition organiser, Maggie Smith, called for people to help her “fill in the gaps of the story.”

The free exhibition will be on display in Salts Mill’s former weaving sheds, now the Pace canteen, tomorrow from 1pm to 4pm.

Contact Maggie Smith on smithmaggie6@googlemail.com.

See Monday’s T&A for a picture special on festival events over the weekend.