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Please find details below of an interesting workshop, which may appeal to some SHCG members!
Best wishes
Clare
Clare Weston
Curator - Domestic and Cultural Life (Mondays to Wednesdays)
Black Country Living Museum
Tel: 0121 521 3520
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.bclm.com
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From: Ugolini, Laura [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 April 2019 15:25
To: Clare Weston <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CHORD workshop - Private Textiles and Dress: Domestic and Intimate Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses
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The CHORD workshop on:
Private Textiles and Dress: Domestic and Intimate Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses
will take place at the University of Wolverhampton, UK
on 13 June 2019.
The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found at:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/private-textiles/
The programme includes:
Cassie Davies-Strodder, V&A and UAL, An uncomfortable fit?: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress in design museums
Sarah-Mary Geissler and Caroleen Molenaar, both University of Brighton, Dressing the Decades: 85 Years of Visitor Clothing
Caroline Ness, independent scholar, Considerations of privacy and the intimate: a family's decisions when choosing the appropriateness of items for public scrutiny
Rachel Neal, De Montfort University, Resonating the Narrative of Human Presence Through Everyday Dress
Elaine Mitchell, University of Birmingham, The efforts of her needle: Catherine Hutton's counterpane
Catherine Howard, Wolverhampton Art School, Behind closed doors
Toni Buckby, Sheffield Hallam University and Victoria & Albert Museum, Blackwork Embroidery - an overview of a fragile archive
Jane Smith, National Trust, Cardinal Wolsey's Purse . Perhaps!
M Faye Prior, York Castle Museum, The Hidden History of a Mystery Garment: A possible early twentieth century menstrual belt
Miriam Phelan, RCA / V&A and Frankie Kubicki, Charles Dickens Museum, Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens: Intimate Objects and Private Textiles
Rosalyn Sklar and Nic Fulcher, both The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Textiles, Care and Access at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Emma Hardy, Geffrye Museum, At Home with Textiles: Furnishing Textiles and Upholstery in the Geffrye Museum's Period Rooms
The workshop will take place on Wolverhampton City Campus, University of Wolverhampton.
The fee is £20
For further information and to register, please see the workshop web-pages, at:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/private-textiles/
Or contact Laura Ugolini, at: [log in to unmask]
Information about CHORD events can also be found here:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/
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