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Enjoy our 'Crafty Chats' : Free Monthly Online Events for C&TA Members
A chance to meet other members across the world and talk textiles: exhibition and book reviews, quizzes, demos. Share ideas and skills: quilters, knitters, embroiders, textile artists, all are welcome. Whatever textiles turn you on bring along some of your own work, share ideas, techniques and news. Share a passion for fashion and textiles from period dress and vintage to catwalk couture.
OUR NEXT CRAFTY CHAT MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT 2PM GMT ON *23rd April, 21st May, 18th June, 16th July, 17th September, 15th October, 12th November and 10th. December 2024 |*UNFORTUNATELY THE MARCH CHAT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO PREPARATIONS FOR THE FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION - APOLOGIES TO OUR REGULARS, SEE YOU AGAIN SOON.
(No need to book: Members will be emailed a link prior to each event)
A chance to meet other members across the world and talk textiles: exhibition and book reviews, quizzes, demos. Share ideas and skills: quilters, knitters, embroiders, textile artists, all are welcome. Whatever textiles turn you on bring along some of your own work, share ideas, techniques and news. Share a passion for fashion and textiles from period dress and vintage to catwalk couture.
OUR NEXT CRAFTY CHAT MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT 2PM GMT ON *23rd April, 21st May, 18th June, 16th July, 17th September, 15th October, 12th November and 10th. December 2024 |*UNFORTUNATELY THE MARCH CHAT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO PREPARATIONS FOR THE FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION - APOLOGIES TO OUR REGULARS, SEE YOU AGAIN SOON.
(No need to book: Members will be emailed a link prior to each event)
Other Zoom events |(below) can be easily booked via Eventbrite - just click on the underlined link for each event listed on this page and it will automatically take you to the booking site.
Ticket Price unless otherwise stated, Members: £5 per person plus booking fee, Non Members £7 per person plus booking fee.
Closed Caption Subtitles are available on all online events.
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C&TA Online Programme 2024:
**If you are unable to make the live talk, many of our speakers have kindly agreed that we can record their talk so we can send you a link to watch afterwards at your leisure. Please check the Eventbrite listing and sign up for the talk to be on the list for the recording.**
Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 19:00 – 20:30 GMT
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe
Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson reveals the wardrobe of one of the world’s most celebrated novelists
Despite Jane's acknowledged brilliance on the page, she has all too often been accused of dowdiness in her appearance. Drawing on Jane Austen’s 161 known letters - as well as her own surviving garments and accessories - Jane Austen's Wardrobe assembles examples of the variety of clothes she would have possessed―from gowns and coats, to shoes and undergarments―to tell a very different story about the renowned author. The Jane Austen that Hilary Davidson reveals is alert to fashion trends but thrifty and eager to reuse and repurpose clothing. Her renowned irony and wit peppers her letters, describing clothes, shopping, and taste. Jane Austen’s Wardrobe offers the rare pleasure of a glimpse inside the closet of a stylish dresser and perpetually fascinating writer.
Click here to book:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jane-austens-wardrobe-with-professor-hilary-davidson-tickets-763064886617?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe
Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson reveals the wardrobe of one of the world’s most celebrated novelists
Despite Jane's acknowledged brilliance on the page, she has all too often been accused of dowdiness in her appearance. Drawing on Jane Austen’s 161 known letters - as well as her own surviving garments and accessories - Jane Austen's Wardrobe assembles examples of the variety of clothes she would have possessed―from gowns and coats, to shoes and undergarments―to tell a very different story about the renowned author. The Jane Austen that Hilary Davidson reveals is alert to fashion trends but thrifty and eager to reuse and repurpose clothing. Her renowned irony and wit peppers her letters, describing clothes, shopping, and taste. Jane Austen’s Wardrobe offers the rare pleasure of a glimpse inside the closet of a stylish dresser and perpetually fascinating writer.
Click here to book:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jane-austens-wardrobe-with-professor-hilary-davidson-tickets-763064886617?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
C&TA Celebrates 35 Years
Free Exhibition celebrating the C&TA's Coral Anniversary
The Gallery, The Forum, Norwich
Daily 10 am - 4 pm
To mark our Coral Anniversary - 35 years of the Costume and Textile Association we will be taking over the Ground floor Exhibition Gallery at The Forum during the Norfolk Makers Festival. We look forward to welcoming all our members and friends to drop in at some point during this week-long event.
Norfolk Makers Festival will offer nine days of inspiring exhibitions, demonstrations, free activities, and workshops. This is a friendly and free-to-enter celebration of both traditional skills and modern practice involving textiles and other crafts. Everyone is welcome to come into The Forum to have a go at something new, develop existing skills, chat to experts and enthusiasts, and enjoy a colourful and eclectic exhibition of work created by local makers, giving you the opportunity to try your hand at something creative, for free.
There will be also be a programme of talks and events both at the Forum and online.
Check out the talks below and on our EVENTS IN PERSON page:
NORFOLK MAKERS’ FESTIVAL ONLINE EVENTS
Saturday 13 April 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 BST. ONLINE EVENT
Agony and Ecstasy: The History of the Corset
FREE illustrated talk on the corset, as part of the Norfolk Makers' Festival
Inspired by the theme of 'Under the Surface', Joy Evitt of the C&TA, will present an illustrated talk from the early beginnings of corset-wearing in dress history, charting the under-garment's journey through time to its excess in Victorian times ... and onto the modern fashion of wearing corsets as outer garments.
Click here to book:
https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/norfolk-makers-festival-24-agony-and-ecstasy-the-history-of-the-corset-tickets-764431403907?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Agony and Ecstasy: The History of the Corset
FREE illustrated talk on the corset, as part of the Norfolk Makers' Festival
Inspired by the theme of 'Under the Surface', Joy Evitt of the C&TA, will present an illustrated talk from the early beginnings of corset-wearing in dress history, charting the under-garment's journey through time to its excess in Victorian times ... and onto the modern fashion of wearing corsets as outer garments.
Click here to book:
https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/norfolk-makers-festival-24-agony-and-ecstasy-the-history-of-the-corset-tickets-764431403907?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Sunday 14 April 14:00 - 15:30 BST ONLINE EVENT
Spinning a Yarn: Women Spinners in Norfolk's Medieval Worsted Industry
Jenn Monahan - C&TA Geoffrey Squire Memorial Bursary(GSMB) award winner 2019 - shares her fascinating research project into the invisible and unsung women who laid the foundations of what would become Norfolk's Worsted Textile Industry in the Early Medieval period, telling the story behind the project, Jenn touches on her motivations and the history of the Norfolk Horn, Norfolk’s indigenous rare breed sheep. Her talk will discuss the life and roles of women in early medieval Norfolk through their tools and textiles. And busts a few myths along the way ...
**Jenn has kindly agreed that we can share a link of her recorded presentation with those who sign up via Eventbrite. The live Q&A session will not be recorded**
(pre-recorded talk followed by Live Q&A with Jenn)(Pay what you can)
Click here to book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norfolk-makers-festival-spinning-a-yarn-women-spinners-in-medieval-norfolk-tickets-788968525097
Spinning a Yarn: Women Spinners in Norfolk's Medieval Worsted Industry
Jenn Monahan - C&TA Geoffrey Squire Memorial Bursary(GSMB) award winner 2019 - shares her fascinating research project into the invisible and unsung women who laid the foundations of what would become Norfolk's Worsted Textile Industry in the Early Medieval period, telling the story behind the project, Jenn touches on her motivations and the history of the Norfolk Horn, Norfolk’s indigenous rare breed sheep. Her talk will discuss the life and roles of women in early medieval Norfolk through their tools and textiles. And busts a few myths along the way ...
**Jenn has kindly agreed that we can share a link of her recorded presentation with those who sign up via Eventbrite. The live Q&A session will not be recorded**
(pre-recorded talk followed by Live Q&A with Jenn)(Pay what you can)
Click here to book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norfolk-makers-festival-spinning-a-yarn-women-spinners-in-medieval-norfolk-tickets-788968525097
**IN PERSON EVENT @ THE FORUM, NORWICH 12 noon Monday 15 April 35 Years of C&TA Support with Ruth Battersby, senior curator, Norfolk Museums Service (NMS) (Pay what you can)
Tuesday 16 April 19:00 - 20:30 BST ONLINE EVENT
Weave: Modernist Designers Bourne & Allen
with Dr Jane Hattrick, co-curator of exhibition at Ditchling Museum
The current exhibition at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in East Sussex brings the woven textiles created by Hilary Bourne (1909-2004) and her partner in life and work Barbara Allen (1903-1972) back into view, and assesses the couple’s important contribution to post-war modernism. The exhibition, co-curated by Jane Hattrick, explores their legacy as modernist hand-weavers, with an emphasis on them as a creative couple and as a part of the women’s professional network of designers and craftspeople established in the inter-war period, many of whom had deep connections with Ditchling. What remains of their archive along with examples of their woven textiles have been rigorously researched and are on display, giving the visitor an intimate picture of their life together, their working practices, an overview of their career, their use of innovative materials such as Lurex and the global influences on their designs.
Bourne and Allen had set up a home and weaving life together in London by 1939 and continued to live and work together until Allen died tragically in a hotel fire in Cambridge in 1972. In the course of their career the couple grew their own dye plants and vat dyed their own yarns. They wove tweeds for Fortnum and Mason, furnishing fabrics for Heal's and spun wool and silk scarves for Liberty. During the early 1950s, they produced vast yardage of hand woven textiles for large-scale Brutalist public buildings such as The Royal Festival Hall (1951) and Swansea University College, working with modernist architects Sadie and Leslie Martin and Misha Black. At the peak of their career they produced textiles for Hollywood films such as Ben Hur.
This talk will discuss the research processes and curatorial decisions taken whilst exploring the contents of the exhibition, with a focus on specific examples of the Bourne and Allen’s woven textiles.
The exhibition Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles continues at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ditchling, East Sussex until Sunday 14 April 2024.**If you can't make the 'live' online talk, Dr Jane Hattrick has kindly agreed that we can record her talk. Sign up for the talk via Eventbrite and you will be sent the recorded link.**
CLICK HERE TO BOOK:
.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norfolk-makers-festival-double-weave-modernist-designers-bourne-allen-tickets-790230028287
Weave: Modernist Designers Bourne & Allen
with Dr Jane Hattrick, co-curator of exhibition at Ditchling Museum
The current exhibition at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in East Sussex brings the woven textiles created by Hilary Bourne (1909-2004) and her partner in life and work Barbara Allen (1903-1972) back into view, and assesses the couple’s important contribution to post-war modernism. The exhibition, co-curated by Jane Hattrick, explores their legacy as modernist hand-weavers, with an emphasis on them as a creative couple and as a part of the women’s professional network of designers and craftspeople established in the inter-war period, many of whom had deep connections with Ditchling. What remains of their archive along with examples of their woven textiles have been rigorously researched and are on display, giving the visitor an intimate picture of their life together, their working practices, an overview of their career, their use of innovative materials such as Lurex and the global influences on their designs.
Bourne and Allen had set up a home and weaving life together in London by 1939 and continued to live and work together until Allen died tragically in a hotel fire in Cambridge in 1972. In the course of their career the couple grew their own dye plants and vat dyed their own yarns. They wove tweeds for Fortnum and Mason, furnishing fabrics for Heal's and spun wool and silk scarves for Liberty. During the early 1950s, they produced vast yardage of hand woven textiles for large-scale Brutalist public buildings such as The Royal Festival Hall (1951) and Swansea University College, working with modernist architects Sadie and Leslie Martin and Misha Black. At the peak of their career they produced textiles for Hollywood films such as Ben Hur.
This talk will discuss the research processes and curatorial decisions taken whilst exploring the contents of the exhibition, with a focus on specific examples of the Bourne and Allen’s woven textiles.
The exhibition Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles continues at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ditchling, East Sussex until Sunday 14 April 2024.**If you can't make the 'live' online talk, Dr Jane Hattrick has kindly agreed that we can record her talk. Sign up for the talk via Eventbrite and you will be sent the recorded link.**
CLICK HERE TO BOOK:
.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norfolk-makers-festival-double-weave-modernist-designers-bourne-allen-tickets-790230028287
Thursday 18 April 19:00 - 20:30 BST ONLINE EVENT Korean Royal Dress as seen in Netflix's 'Kingdom' series with Dr Mingjung Lee, Costume Maker and Lecturer in Korean Costume at Korea National University of Cultural Heritage & Seoul National University. Beautiful costumes of the Royal Court seen in the Netflix series, together with the traditional costumes of the `joseon Dynasty that inspired them. White mourning clothes, styles of hats and headcoverings, the wearing of courtier rank badge, as well of the use of colour, silks and golden thread for the royal family. Korean cinema - K-Cinema - has become hugely popular internationally. The popular TV series 'Kingdom' blends political thriller and zombie horror. **Please note that due to the time differences, this talk is pre-recorded. CLICK HERE TO BOOK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/norfolk-makers-festival-korean-royal-dress-as-seen-in-netflixs-kingdom-tickets-799593695267? |
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 19:00 - 20:30 BST ONLINE EVENT
Print, Pattern & Narrative
Kate Farley, Associate Professor in Design and Course Leader of the BA Textile Design course at Norwich University of the Arts
Associate Professor, Kate Farley discusses how printed pattern has been a vehicle for narratives, in both small and large-scale works, and how this informs her teaching /writing.
Kate published 'Repeat Pattern Design for Interiors' in Jan 2023:
Beginning with the history of patterns in interior design, Kate Farley uncovers lessons from the early masters through the work of Marimekko, Owen Jones, Collier Campbell, and Josef Frank. In her book she interviews with some of the best contemporary pattern designers working today: Angie Lewin, Deborah Bowness, Eley Kishimoto, Emma Shipley, Galbraith & Paul, Neisha Crosland, Orla Kiely, Sarah Campbell and Timorous Beasties. Each interview covers the designer's practice and ethos and includes a deconstruction of one design, with discussion of initial sketches, details of design development, manufacturing insights and images of final products, considering material choices, colour statements, manufacturing considerations and commercial interior contexts and explores the power repeat patterns hold over us and what goes into creating original, effective printed designs.
Click here to book:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/print-pattern-narrative-kate-farley-norwich-university-of-the-arts-tickets-730474377527?aff=ebdssbeac
Print, Pattern & Narrative
Kate Farley, Associate Professor in Design and Course Leader of the BA Textile Design course at Norwich University of the Arts
Associate Professor, Kate Farley discusses how printed pattern has been a vehicle for narratives, in both small and large-scale works, and how this informs her teaching /writing.
Kate published 'Repeat Pattern Design for Interiors' in Jan 2023:
Beginning with the history of patterns in interior design, Kate Farley uncovers lessons from the early masters through the work of Marimekko, Owen Jones, Collier Campbell, and Josef Frank. In her book she interviews with some of the best contemporary pattern designers working today: Angie Lewin, Deborah Bowness, Eley Kishimoto, Emma Shipley, Galbraith & Paul, Neisha Crosland, Orla Kiely, Sarah Campbell and Timorous Beasties. Each interview covers the designer's practice and ethos and includes a deconstruction of one design, with discussion of initial sketches, details of design development, manufacturing insights and images of final products, considering material choices, colour statements, manufacturing considerations and commercial interior contexts and explores the power repeat patterns hold over us and what goes into creating original, effective printed designs.
Click here to book:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/print-pattern-narrative-kate-farley-norwich-university-of-the-arts-tickets-730474377527?aff=ebdssbeac
Tuesday, 21 May 2024 19:00 - 20:30 BST
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
Dr Kate Strasdin, Lecturer at Falmouth University reveals the secrets of a Victorian woman's wardrobe:
In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of her life and times. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes.
Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum curator, who spent the next six years unravelling the secrets contained within the album's pages.
Piece by piece, she charts Anne's journey from the mills of Lancashire to the port of Singapore before tracing her return to England in later years. Fragments of cloth become windows into Victorian life: pirates in Borneo, the complicated etiquette of mourning, poisonous dyes, the British Empire in full swing, rioting over working conditions and the terrible human cost of Britain's cotton industry. Through the evidence of waistcoats, ball gowns and mourning outfits, Strasdin lays bare the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes we choose to wear.
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Wednesday, 5 June 2024 19;00 - 20:30 BST
Courtly Coral: Red Coral and Coral Motifs at the Chinese Imperial Court
with Dr Pippa Lacey
In celebration of the C&TA's Coral Anniversary: 35 years as an independent charity supporting the Norfolk Museums Service's costume and textiles collections.
Mediterranean red coral, shanhu, was traded along the Silk Roads to China from ancient times. From at least the Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), coral motifs were incorported into the design of imperial Chinese robes. Shanhu is considered one of the spiritual treasures of Buddhism.
Throughout the Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), coral motifs were woven or embroidered on silken robes, rank badges and other courtly textiles. Extraordinary textiles were ornamented with tiny coral and pearl bead decoration. Larger red coral beads were incorporated into imperial necklaces worn by the emperor and his family. Qing courtiers sporting a red coral button on their court hats - together with peacock feathers - indicated the achievement of highest rank and success at the Qing court.
Coral motifs were part of a set of auspicious and apotropaic (protective) symbols that enwrapped a Chinese emperor and his courtiers. Costume historian John Vollmer, defines the five functions of the institution of emperorship as: sacral, administrative, scholarly, martial and private. Coral motifs were placed on the various ritual robes worn by the emperor while undertaking his various imperial duties through the year.
Pippa Lacey gained her PhD in Art History from the School of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, with a study of the trade and uses of Mediterranean red coral, in Qing dynasty China. She explored the construction of identity and status through material culture, with a focus on colour and coloured materials.
**If you are unable to make the live talk, Pippa has kindly agreed that we can record her talk and send you a link afterwards. Sign up to Eventbrite to be on the list for the recording.**
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/courtly-coral-red-coral-and-coral-motifs-at-the-chinese-imperial-court-tickets-764223181107
Tuesday 23 July, 2024 19:00 - 20:30 BST
The Pastons: Clothes Maketh the Man (and Woman)
with Sunday Times best selling author Anne O’Brien
Throughout history, the way people dressed influenced how others perceived them.
This was true in the class-conscious society of the fifteenth century, and particularly for the Paston family living in Norfolk. A middling sort of family in the years of the Wars of the Roses, this was a family with its eyes fixed on gentry status. Impressing the neighbours was vitally important; so was being careful with their money.
At the beginning of the century Clement Paston was a mere husbandman with no claim to social standing. By the reign of King Henry VII his great grandson John Paston was a knight and invited to events at court.
What did their clothing and their household textiles tell us about the aspirations of this level of society? Here we can search the Paston letters and wills, as well as the inventories of Paston manors, for glimpses of how they chose to make a statement in society.
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-pastons-clothes-maketh-the-man-and-woman-with-author-anne-obrien-tickets-733674629567
Tuesday 24 September, 2024 19:00 - 20:30 BST
Fashion on the Silk Roads
Professor Susan Whitfield, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) brings to life the fashions and inhabitants of the Silk Roads between AD 500 - 1300
In the first millennium AD, merchants, nuns, diplomats, soldiers and slaves travelled the vast network of Afro-Eurasia tracks that became known as the Silk Roads. The elite wore clothes of the finest textiles, gold embroidered silks lined with sable and mink. Through diplomatic missions and marriages, men and women of the courts exchanged fashions, from impractical sleeves, tailored jackets with wide lapels, to braided hair and gold belts. Colours and motifs also travelled, notably the Sogdian roundel—a circle of pearls enclosing birds and animals.
Few clothes remain from this period—although there have been some remarkable finds—but images of the cosmopolitan men and women who lived and travelled along the Silk Roads are preserved in paintings and sculptures, and contemporary texts often give descriptions of the dress. From these sources, we get a glimpse of the importance and spread of fashions in the pre-modern world.
Click here to book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fashion-on-the-silk-roads-500-1300-ad-with-professor-susan-whitfield-tickets-769813632297
Fashion on the Silk Roads
Professor Susan Whitfield, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) brings to life the fashions and inhabitants of the Silk Roads between AD 500 - 1300
In the first millennium AD, merchants, nuns, diplomats, soldiers and slaves travelled the vast network of Afro-Eurasia tracks that became known as the Silk Roads. The elite wore clothes of the finest textiles, gold embroidered silks lined with sable and mink. Through diplomatic missions and marriages, men and women of the courts exchanged fashions, from impractical sleeves, tailored jackets with wide lapels, to braided hair and gold belts. Colours and motifs also travelled, notably the Sogdian roundel—a circle of pearls enclosing birds and animals.
Few clothes remain from this period—although there have been some remarkable finds—but images of the cosmopolitan men and women who lived and travelled along the Silk Roads are preserved in paintings and sculptures, and contemporary texts often give descriptions of the dress. From these sources, we get a glimpse of the importance and spread of fashions in the pre-modern world.
Click here to book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fashion-on-the-silk-roads-500-1300-ad-with-professor-susan-whitfield-tickets-769813632297