Textile Culture, Social Fabric, and the Unravelling of Material History

Name: Textile Culture, Social Fabric, and the Unravelling of Material History
Start: 2024-07-12T09:30:00+01:00
Location: Society of Antiquaries of London

Schedule

Fri Jul 12 2024 at 09:30 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Society of Antiquaries of London | London, EN

This one-day conference will take an expansive and up-to-date view of the cultural and historical contexts of textiles, dress and fashion. Supported by the Janet Arnold fund located in The Society of Antiquaries of London, the event will showcase the dynamism and interdisciplinarity of this burgeoning field of scholarship, and the range of projects, methodologies and practices that are driving research. Bringing together historical, archaeological and contemporary ways of thinking about dress and the textiles from which it is made, this event will showcase recent research that bridges both theory and practice, including the reconstruction of historical garments and what we can learn from them.
Spanning textile culture, visual and material culture, histories of art and design, archaeology, and literary studies, this conference will take a global approach to exploring the interwoven relationships between textiles, dress, history and our understanding of the social fabric across time and place.