CHORD workshop. TEXTILE FRAGMENTS: Incomplete Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses

12 June 2014

University of Wolverhampton

PROGRAMME

11.00 – 11.30 Welcome, coffee and registration

11.30 – 12.00 Rachel Boak, The National Trust, ‘”A fine lot of old velvet”: the Rothschild taste for textile fragments at Waddesdon Manor’

12.00 – 12.30 Judith Carmel-Arthur, ‘Hannah Gubbay: the fragmentary story of a woman textile enthusiast and collector of significance’

12.30 – 13.00Jacqueline Hyman and Anita Forth, The Textile Restoration Studio, ‘What’s behind your wall? Hidden garments found in Bolton’

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.30 Sarah Jane Kenyon, Adorned In Trimmings

14.30 – 15.00 Lisa Mason, National Museums Scotland, ‘The Design Process: The Bernat Klein Archive, National Museums Scotland’

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee

15.30 – 16.00 Gina Pierce, London Metropolitan University, ‘The influence of the Parker Knoll Company on the textile manufacturing industry, and on the furniture purchasing choices made by the British public, 1930-50’

16.00 – 16.30 Maj Ringgaard, National Museum of Denmark, ‘Stockings from the dump: evidence of professional stocking repairs from early modern Copenhagen’

INFORMATION

The workshop will be held at the University of Wolverhampton, Room MC228, Millennium City Building.

The fee is £18

To register, please see  the workshop web-page, available here: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/fragments.htm

For further information, please e-mail: Laura Ugolini: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk or   Margaret Ponsonby: m.ponsonby@wlv.ac.uk

Portion of a hanging, 17th century, W500 © Sandwell Museums http://www.blackcountryhistory.org

CHORD Workshop: Retailing, Commerce and the Human Body: Historical Approaches

14 May 2014

University of Wolverhampton

PROGRAMME

 10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE  AND WELCOME

11.00 – 11.30         Fan Carter, Kingston University, Getting the ‘Honey Look’: Magazines, Marketing and  the Teenage Consumer in 1960s Britain

11.30 – 12.00         Jenny Evans, University of Wolverhampton, Purity, Piety and Pants: The ‘Religious Body’ in Early-Twentieth Century British Underwear Marketing

12.00 – 12.30         Susan Vincent, University of York, Hairdressers and Barbers: Intimate Acts

12.30 – 13.00         Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton, University of Reading, Portraits of Bank Managers: Buying the Corporate Image in the Early Nineteenth Century

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH

 14.00 – 14.30         Phil Lyon, Liz Ross and Craig Cathcart, Offering Hope: Aurists’ Advertisements in Mid-Nineteenth Century British Newspapers

14.30 – 15.00         Samantha Khaw, Australian National University, The Challenge of Marketing Colour Cosmetics in Nineteenth Century British Popular Press

15.00 – 15.30         June Rowe, University of the Arts, Marketing Youthful Femininity: The Fashion Display Mannequin and British Style 1947-1970

15.30 – 16.00 COFFEE

 16.00 – 16.30         Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton, University of Reading, Portraits of Bank Managers: Buying the Corporate Image in the Early Nineteenth Century

16.30 – 17.00         Shirley Wajda, Michigan State University Museum, ‘Social Currency’: Photography, Personhood, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

17.00 – 17.30         Ya-Lei Yen, Royal Holloway, University of London, ‘Let the Photographer “Pose” You; He is the Best Judge of your Face and Figure’: Female Beauty and Fashion in Mid-Victorian Photographs

INFORMATION

 The workshop will be held in room MH206/7, Mary Seacole Building, University of Wolverhampton.

 The fee is £18

 To register, please see the workshop web-page, at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/bodies.htm

 For further information, please e-mail:

Dr Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk 

or

Dr Karin Dannehl at k.dannehl@wlv.ac.uk

Workshop and Call for Papers: ‘TEXTILE FRAGMENTS’: Incomplete Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses

12 June 2014

University of Wolverhampton, UK

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invites proposals for papers that focus on any aspect of textile and dress ‘fragments’ held in museums, historic houses, archives or other repositories, including private collections.

We invite papers both from historians and scholars whose research makes use of fragmentary textiles and dress, and from museum professionals who are responsible for their care, interpretation and display.

We welcome both proposals that focus on the insights the ‘fragments’ provide on the history of textiles and dress, and proposals that consider their value and challenges as museum objects.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

§  Patterns and pattern books

§  Re-used and out of context textiles

§  Off-cuts, patches, threads and spare material

§  Incomplete and fragmentary dress

§  Scraps and scrapbooks

§ Representations and uses of textile fragments

§  Samples and swatches

To submit a proposal, please send title and abstract of c. 400 words to Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk by 7 March 2014.

We are pleased to be able to offer a small subsidy to help cover speakers’ expenses. For more information, please contact: Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

The workshop will be held at the University of Wolverhampton, on City Campus, a short walk from Wolverhampton’s bus and train stations. For directions see http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=6856

For further information, please e-mail
Laura Ugolini: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk  or  Margaret Ponsonby: m.ponsonby@wlv.ac.uk

Or see the workshop web-page at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/fragments.htm

Portion of a hanging, 17th century,
W500 © Sandwell Museums http://www.blackcountryhistory.org

Workshop call for papers: ‘Retailing, Commerce and the Human Body: Historical Approaches’

14 May 2014

University of Wolverhampton, UK

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invites proposals for papers that explore the relationship between retailing, commerce and human bodies, in Britain and beyond. Any aspect of the commercial and retail practices practices that are connected to the business of exploiting, caring for, or ‘improving’ bodies would be welcome and there are no restrictions in terms of the historical period covered.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

§  Hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons

§  Undertakers and funeral parlours

§  Marketing, bodies and sexuality

§  Tattoo parlours and tanning salons

§  Grooming products, perfumery and toiletries

§  Measuring, fitting and ‘trying-on’

§  Massage parlours, Turkish baths and spas

§  Photography shops and portaiture

To submit a proposal, please send title and abstract of c.300 to 400 words to Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk by 21 February 2014.

The workshop will be held at the University of Wolverhampton, on Wolverhampton City Campus, a mere 10-minute walk from Wolverhampton’s bus and train stations. For directions see http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=6856

For further information, please e-mail: Dr Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk or Dr Karin Dannehl at k.dannehl@wlv.ac.uk.

Or see the workshop web-page at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/bodies.htm