With apologies for cross-posting:
The CHORD (Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) workshop on:
'The Creation, Collection and Care of Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses: Amateurs and Professionals'
will take place at the University of Wolverhampton
on 11 June 2015
The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found at:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/textiles2015.htm
The programme includes:
Brenda King, Chair - the Textile Society, ‘A big story in a small thing’
Vivienne Richmond, Goldsmiths, University of London, ‘Unpicking the History of Disability and Craftwork’
Ann French, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, ‘ “We are doing what seems to me the most scientific way of cataloguing an embroidery collection….” : Reflecting on the collector’s legacy’
Katy May, ‘Revisiting the clothing of Mr and Mrs Tobitt (d.1987)’
Kathryn Rogerson, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, ‘The Fairclough project at the Harris Museum: Giving a Farming Costume collection a new lease of life with the help of volunteers’
Shelley Tobin, The National Trust and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, ‘Challenging the un-challenging’
Debra Roberts, Leeds College of Art, ‘Collecting and the collector’
Rebecca Bridgman, Birmingham Museums, ‘A Painted Curtain or Pardeh from Qajar Iran in Birmingham’s collection’
The workshop will be held in room MC331, Millennium City Building, University of Wolverhampton.
The fee is £17.
For further information and to register, please see the workshop web-pages, at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/textiles2015.htm
Or contact Laura Ugolini, at: [log in to unmask]
Information about CHORD events can also be found here: https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/
Prof. Laura Ugolini
Professor of History
Joint editor, Textile History
Dept. of History, Politics, War Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Room MC334
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
WV1 1LY
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