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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, 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. Or if you are not a maker there are exhibition and book reviews, quizzes, demos.
Share a passion for fashion and textiles from period dress and vintage to catwalk couture.
(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, 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. Or if you are not a maker there are exhibition and book reviews, quizzes, demos.
Share a passion for fashion and textiles from period dress and vintage to catwalk couture.
(No need to book: Members will be emailed a link prior to each event)
All 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.
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Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 19:00 – 20:30 GMT
Spinning a Yarn: Women Spinners in Norfolk’s Medieval Worsted Industry Jenn Monahan, C&TA Geoffrey Squire Memorial Bursary(GSMB) Award winner 2019, will share her research project into the invisible and unsung women who laid the foundations of what would become Norfolk's international Worsted Textile Industry in the early medieval period. Click here to Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spinning-a-yarn-women-spinners-in-norfolks-medieval-worsted-industry-tickets-504656901377?keep_tld=1 |
C&TA Online Programme 2024:
We will be bringing you a range of fabulous talks throughout 2024, our 35th coral anniversary year. Bookings for zoom events will be posted here and on Eventbrite.
Our 2024 online talks will range from medieval textiles in Norfolk with best-selling author Anne O’Brien talking on the Paston family, to contemporary pattern design with Associate Professor of Design at Norwich University of the Arts, Kate Farley. Later in the year, Dr Jane Hattrick will talk on the textile designers Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen and Dr Pippa Lacey will explore the use of red coral and coral motifs in spectacular silk textiles at the Qing Imperial Court of China.
Our 2024 online talks will range from medieval textiles in Norfolk with best-selling author Anne O’Brien talking on the Paston family, to contemporary pattern design with Associate Professor of Design at Norwich University of the Arts, Kate Farley. Later in the year, Dr Jane Hattrick will talk on the textile designers Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen and Dr Pippa Lacey will explore the use of red coral and coral motifs in spectacular silk textiles at the Qing Imperial Court of China.
Tuesday, 23rd January 2024, 1900 - 20:30 GMT
Tartan
Consultant curator and fashion academic Professor Johanthan Faiers places tartan within its cultural, political and philosophical context.
Tartan was the inspiration for the major exhibition at V&A Dundee (Jan 2024).
From the high fashion of Westwood, McQueen, Chanel and Dior to tartan clad heroes such as Jackie Stewart and Doddie Weir and the MacBean tartan that rocketed to the moon. The V&A Tartan show included over 300 objects showcasing tartan’s timeless appeal and rebellious spirit across fashion, architecture, art and design. It included tartan worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie, a Scottish soldier’s mud stained kilt from the trenches of WWI, and not forgetting the Bay City Rollers trousers made by a lifelong fan.
Tartan's history has made it uniquely capable of expressing both conformity and subversion, tradition and innovation. Through positioning tartan within broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts - from the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement, to the fabric's influence on Westwood and McQueen and a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi - Jonathan Faiers traces tartan's development from clanship to contemporary fashion and its enormous domestic and global impact.
Click here to Book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tartan-with-professor-jonathan-faiers-tickets-756982895217?aff=ebdssbeac
Tartan
Consultant curator and fashion academic Professor Johanthan Faiers places tartan within its cultural, political and philosophical context.
Tartan was the inspiration for the major exhibition at V&A Dundee (Jan 2024).
From the high fashion of Westwood, McQueen, Chanel and Dior to tartan clad heroes such as Jackie Stewart and Doddie Weir and the MacBean tartan that rocketed to the moon. The V&A Tartan show included over 300 objects showcasing tartan’s timeless appeal and rebellious spirit across fashion, architecture, art and design. It included tartan worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie, a Scottish soldier’s mud stained kilt from the trenches of WWI, and not forgetting the Bay City Rollers trousers made by a lifelong fan.
Tartan's history has made it uniquely capable of expressing both conformity and subversion, tradition and innovation. Through positioning tartan within broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts - from the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement, to the fabric's influence on Westwood and McQueen and a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi - Jonathan Faiers traces tartan's development from clanship to contemporary fashion and its enormous domestic and global impact.
Click here to Book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tartan-with-professor-jonathan-faiers-tickets-756982895217?aff=ebdssbeac
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 19:00 – 20:30 GMT
Dressing Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Jane Pritchard M.B.E., curator of dance for the Victoria and Albert Museum, presents an illustrated talk on Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (1911-1929) was one of the most influential performance companies. The spectacular costumes the dancers wore ranged from those that liberated the body to those that restricted movement, created by designers and fine artists who used their imagination to create fantasy outfits whilst other costumes reflected the fashions and contemporary dress of the day. The illustrated presentation will include discussion of how some of the costumes changed over the years and celebrates the wealth of the Ballets Russes costume collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
2024 celebrates: 150th Birthday of Ballet Russes artist and stage set and costume designer, Nicolas Roerich.
100th Anniversary of the death of Leon Bakst, a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and costume designer for Ballets Russes
111th Anniversary of the opening of The Rite of Spring ballet by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky
Click here to book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressing-diaghilevs-ballets-russes-with-jane-pritchard-mbe-tickets-760649100937?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
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
Saturday 13 April 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 BST
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
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 19:00 - 20:30 BST
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 - 21:30 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.
Click here to book:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dress-diary-of-mrs-anne-sykes-with-dr-kate-strasdin-tickets-763100001647?aff=ebdssbdestsearch