‘On the Move’
The Medieval Dress and Textiles Society conference and Annual General
Meeting 2016
The Art Workers’ Guild, 6, Queen Square London WC1N 3AT
Saturday 4 June from 11am to 5.15 pm.
Speakers will include:
Elizabeth Coatsworth, formerly of Manchester Metropolitan University;
Thomas Ertl, Universität Wein, Vienna;
Alexandra Lester-Makin, The University of Manchester;
Christine Meek, Trinity College, Dublin;
Margot Miller, Mortimer History Society;
Eva Trein Nielsen, Copenhagen;
Mary Hollingsworth, Author.
Topics will include information from the Statutes of Visby about how
textiles were to be packed, transported and protected and a discussion
of the convoys in which silk cloths were carried; an examination of
inventories of textiles taken at change of ownership, when household
goods were confiscated or won; the care and purchase of clothing for an
Italian nobleman and his household travelling to France in the 1530s;
the accoutrements of an itinerant bishop and the spreading of textiles
associated with a martyred archbishop; and an embroidery stitch which
travelled.
Tickets for members are £25 each, non-members £30 each, students £15
each and dual (1 member + 1 non-member booked together) £50 each
Please send an SAE and cheque made payable to Medieval Dress & Textile
Society to: Carole Thompson, 9 Fairthorn Road, Charlton, London, SE7 7RL
Payment can also be made online via Paypal at http://www.medats.org.uk
Details at http://www.medats.org.uk/meetings.html
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