Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".
Programme:
📸 Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
📸 Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
📸 Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes
Finally, on Sunday April 28, there'll be another "At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" event!
Programme:
🧵 Linda McShannock - A Living for the Earnest, A Fortune for the Capable: Dressmaking in Minneapolis, 1880-1920
🧵 Cecilia Soares - A transatlantic wardrobe: an analysis of the Belle Époque sartorial goods from the Ivy House Museum, in Vassouras, Brazil (1870-1910)
🧵 Alden O'Brien - TBD
I’ve been given the Janet Arnold Award by the Society of Antiquaries to recreate clothing described in the Tudor song, Greensleeves.
Really excited to be working on this project with a team of superb costume historians.
Among other things, there will be a video to come in the future, and a book about Greensleeves & early modern clothing in music and song, but in the meantime, here is our recording of the words and music… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo
Detail from a fresco for the month of March, c1470, by Francesco del Cossa in the Palazzo Schifanoia (Ferrara), showing a company of women weaving & sewing.
"We are looking to appoint a Lecturer with research expertise within #Anthropology and #MaterialCulture, #VisualCulture and #DigitalCulture to join our Material Culture section. The post-holder will conduct independent research and teach modules on visual culture at undergraduate and postgraduate levels."
Save the date for a special "19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed" online event on Sunday November 26, this time in collaboration with ACORSO Research Interest Group "Tailoring for Women 1750 - 1930"!
"Focused on the holdings of Teaching Collections of dress housed across the United States, curators and archivists from featured institutions will share treasures of tailored clothing for women produced and worn during the long nineteenth century."
Programme:
👗 Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University
👗 Drexel University Robert and Penny Fox Historical Costume Collection
👗 Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection
👗 Goldstein Museum of Design (GMD) College of Design University of Minnesota
You can still reserve a spot for the next "At Home with 19th Century Dress & Textiles" (free) online event on Sunday, October 29!
This time, the speakers will be sharing "hidden, overlooked and marginalised histories."
Programme:
🧵 Lisa Bowyer - The Rachel Barrett sampler, Halifax's African school (1836-1855) and the recouping of identity
🧵 Chris Evans - Clothing the Enslaved in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
🧵 Ruth Battersby - Personal and Political: Selected Textiles from the Norwich Costume and Textile Collections
The 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" event has been announced! Taking place online on September 24th, it's all about exploring the "connections between smell, scene, fragrance and the social and cultural history of Dress and Textiles".
Programme:
🧴 Caroline Vaughan-Kett: Scents and Sensibility; an Insider's View into Modern Perfumery
🧴 Kimberly Wahl: Perfume and Visual Culture 1880 to 1915
🧴 Hilary Davidson: The Fragrance of Fabric. Some Directions in Research
With its haunting melody, and the romantic myth that it was written by #HenryVIII as a love song for #AnneBoleyn, Greensleeves has remained popular over the centuries and today, is probably the best known of all #Tudor#songs.
However there is no proven connection to Henry VIII, and the earliest mention of the broadside ballad called #Greensleeves was not until September 1580, (some 33 years after his death). It was an immediate hit, and a number of imitations and parodies were produced in the following months and years.
Our recording uses the text from 'A Handful of Pleasant Delights', 1584 - the earliest surviving source. There are many verses, some of which contain lovely descriptions of #Elizabethan clothing and other aspects of #MaterialCulture