Auditorium/Exhibit Hall
Straight down from the main entry is the exhibit hall. The exhibit changes out every two months. Click the button below to learn more about the current and upcoming exhibits.
West Room
The West Room contains spinning wheels and many Weaving looms that the Oregon Coast Fiber Artisans have works in progress.
Lessons can be arranged by appointment and are usually held on Tuesday or Friday. Click the link to email for more information.
Lessons can be arranged by appointment and are usually held on Tuesday or Friday. Click the link to email for more information.
East Room
Antique quilts from the Latimer Collection, along with contemporary and art quilts, are displayed in this room. A bank of glass-covered drawers containing mini exhibits of antique sewing notions, cigar silks, buttons and pins line one wall.
The East Room also serves as Latimer’s meeting space, where textile related groups and guilds can come together. Any group with a membership in the Latimer Center can use this space free of charge as long as no group is already meeting at the time requested.
The East Room also serves as Latimer’s meeting space, where textile related groups and guilds can come together. Any group with a membership in the Latimer Center can use this space free of charge as long as no group is already meeting at the time requested.
The LaRayne Woodward Quilt Repository
Built in 1996, the repository comes with conservatorial lighting, hermetic temperature control and museum space-saving storage fittings. Everything about its design is calculated to minimize the degradation of textiles. Collections are stored in acid free boxes. The repository has its own computer system and the Past Perfect data base program is used to catalogue Latimer collections. It is not open to the public but can be viewed by appointment.
Collections | The Latimer Center’s collection includes quilts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, quilt blocks, quilt templates and fabric samples. There are also clothing, hand- woven coverlets, looms, spinning wheels and other quilting and weaving textile tools and implements.
Bromleigh and Mary Louise Lamb Quilt Collection | This collection contains quilts from the Hall family, Faulders family, and Ella Hall Smithson and Mary Eliza Faulders. These quilts date from the mid 1800s to about 1930.
Daphne Collection | This collection is an assemblage of crochet typical of the 1930s and 1940s.
Marjorie Green Collection | This collection contains samples of hand-woven textiles and reference material from the 1950s and 1960s by an accomplished weaver/designer/colorist.
Hickman Collection | This collection includes hand-woven samples with drafts originally prepared by Wallace Hickman during the 1950s and 1960s.
Collections | The Latimer Center’s collection includes quilts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, quilt blocks, quilt templates and fabric samples. There are also clothing, hand- woven coverlets, looms, spinning wheels and other quilting and weaving textile tools and implements.
Bromleigh and Mary Louise Lamb Quilt Collection | This collection contains quilts from the Hall family, Faulders family, and Ella Hall Smithson and Mary Eliza Faulders. These quilts date from the mid 1800s to about 1930.
Daphne Collection | This collection is an assemblage of crochet typical of the 1930s and 1940s.
Marjorie Green Collection | This collection contains samples of hand-woven textiles and reference material from the 1950s and 1960s by an accomplished weaver/designer/colorist.
Hickman Collection | This collection includes hand-woven samples with drafts originally prepared by Wallace Hickman during the 1950s and 1960s.