Below is a conference proceedings that has
several papers that look quite interesting. Wish
that the price was a bit better though. Currently
only available from the publisher and Amazon-UK...
Beth
Textiles and Text (Maria Hayward and Chris Bennett eds.) October 2007
The 3rd conference volume from the AHRC Tesearch
Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile
Studies, Textile Conservation Centre, University
of Southampton ISBN: 9781904982265 £47.50 (
$95.00) Paperback 268 Pages 140 colour, 173 half-tones Illustrations
http://www.archetype.co.uk
from the conference http://www.annatextiles.ch/sympindex/06_tex/texrandtex.htm
Textiles and Text
Edited by Maria Hayward and Elizabeth Kramer
This publication focuses on the interrelationship
between archival and bibliographic research and
the study of extant objects. Papers consider how
archival and bibliographic research can inform
our knowledge of textiles and dress, in terms of
their production, consumption, dissemination and
deterioration and in turn, how the study of
extant objects can give added depth to this
analysis. The authors include conservators,
curators, historians and conservation scientists.
These postprints are the third in a series of
three volumes of papers emanating from the
conferences of the AHRC Research Centre for
Textile Conservation and Textile Studies, Textile
Conservation Centre, University of the
Southampton, and published by Archetype
Publications. The themes for the preceding volumes are:
Scientific Analysis of Ancient and Historic
Textiles: Informing Preservation, Display and
Interpretation (published by Archetype 2005)
The Future of the 20th Century: Collecting,
Interpreting and Conserving Modern Materials (published by Archetype 2006)
CONTENTS
Foreword Maria Hayward
Introduction Elizabeth Kramer
Into the archive
Researching the domestic interior: the example of
the Chintz Lady, Elsie de Wolfe Penny Sparke
I have bought cloth for you and will deliver it
myself: using documentary sources in the
analysis of the archaeological textile finds from
Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt Fiona J.L. Handley
What Essex man wore: an investigation into
Elizabethan dress recorded in wills 1558 to 1603
Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies
Abundant images and scant text: reading textile pattern books Philip A. Sykas
Recovering identity: the role of textual evidence
in identifying forgotten azlon fibres from the mid-20th century Mary Brooks
Adopting other strategies, using other sources
Wherein Taylors may finde out new fashions:
constructing the Costume Research Image Library (CRIL) Jane Malcolm-Davies
Unlocking one facet of Henry VIIIs wardrobe: an
investigation of the base Maria Hayward
A portrait, two dresses, two samplers and a burning steamship Edward F. Maederv
(Ad)Dressing the century: fashionability and floral frocks Jo Turney
Sound recording and text creation: oral history
and the Deliberately Concealed Garments Project Dinah Eastop
Uncovering institutions
Late medieval Ladies of the Garter, 13481509:
fact or fiction? Shelagh Mitchell
Lace and documents: the Istituzioni di Ricovero e
Educazione (IRE) collections in Venice Isabella Campagnol Fabretti
Undated, unattributable and unfinished: forgotten
samplers and their re-evaluation through archival
research Joyce A. Taylor Dawson
Tracing textiles in trade: from account books to patents
Fashioning the Tudor court Cinzia Maria Sicca
Costume at the court of Cosimo and Eleonora de
Medici: on fashion and Florentine textile production Bruna Niccoli
Bought, stolen, bequeathed, preserved: sources
for the study of 18th-century petticoats Clare Rose
Analysing patents and objects: a preliminary
investigation into the crinolines of W.S. Thomson Katy May
Patents as a source of information about
synthetic textile dyes Rosemary M. Baker
The interaction between East and West
A paradise of pretty girls: the kimono and
perceptions of Japan Elizabeth Kramer
Dragon robes and prairie ladies: the incongruity
between archives and artefacts Julia Petrov
Chasing the dragon: researching Chinese textiles
in early 20th-century domestic interiors Sarah Cheang
Domesticity and gender explored and challenged
A Linnen Pockett a prayer Book and five keys:
approaches to a history of womens tie-on pockets Barbara Burman
The antimacassar in fact and fiction: how textual
resources reveal a domestic textile Alice McEwan
Inoffensively feminine: First World War
military concert parties, female impersonators and their costumes Sarah Norris
Inspiring textile collections: textiles and text
combined in Winchester School of Art Library and
in the Special Collections, Hartley Library,
University of Southampton Libraries Linda Newington
Collaborative approaches: curators, conservators and dress historians
Thistles and Thrissels: Scottish Covenanting
flags of the 17th and early 18th century George Dalgleish and Lynn McClean
Dye analysis, textiles and text: unravelling the
puzzle of Queen Charlottes state bed Maria Jordan and Mika Takami
Joining forces: the intersection of two replica
garments Hilary Davidson and Anna Hodson
Information uncovered by conservation
Understanding the full story: acknowledging
intimate interactions of textiles and text as
both help and hindrance for preservation Cordelia Rogerson
The interaction of textile and text: the
conservation of a mid-16th-century chemise binding Maria Hayward
The investigation and documentation of a
communion table carpet in Corpus Christi College, Oxford Florence Maskell
Who put the text in textiles? Deciphering text
hidden within a 1718 coverlet: documentation of
papers hidden within an early 18th-century
coverlet using transmitted light photography
Karen N. Thompson and Michael Halliwell
Jewish ceremonial textiles and the Torah:
exploring conservation practices in relation to
ritual textiles associated with holy texts Bernice Morris and Mary M. Brooks
A flags life in New York: The New York State
Battle Flag Preservation Project Sarah C. Stevens
Objects without documentation: the role of
conservation science in revealing more about these artefacts
Collecting a near infrared spectral database of
modern textiles for use of on-site
characterisation Emma Richardson, Graham Martin and Paul Wyeth
Photodegradation of Phormium tenax fibres: the
role of naturally occurring coumarins Gerald J.
Smith, Raukura Chadwick, Ngaire Konese, Sue
Scheele, Stephen E. Tauwhare and Roderick J. Weston
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