Early Textiles Study Group – 13th biannual conference
Colours
Programme
19th – 20th November 2010
Franks Room, Wellcome Collection Conference Centre
183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
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For updated programme and booking form:
For other enquiries, please contact:
Helen Persson
Conference organiser,
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, UK
Email:
Day 1, Friday 19th November 2010
09.00Registration
09.45Welcome: Helen Persson
10.00Recent Advances in Knowledge of Colour in Textiles up to AD1600
Speaker: Dr. Dominique Cardon, National Centre of Scientific Research, France
10.40Analysis of natural colorants at the British Museum
Speaker: Thibaut Deviese, The British Museum
11.20Tea
11.50Colour in late Antiquity and Spanish Muslim textiles: Analysis of dyestuffs from Spanish textile public collections
Speaker: Ana Cabrera Lafuente, National Museum of Decorative Arts, Madrid
12.20Medieval Colour Terminology
Speaker: Lisa Monnas, FSA, Independent Scholar
13.00Discussion
Chair: Frances Pritchard, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
13.15Lunch
Presentation of posters
14.30Seeing Things in Colour: Dyes in Danish Early Iron Age Textiles
Speaker: Dr. Margarita Gleba, UCL, London and CTR, Copenhagen
15.10New Colours for the Norwegian Migration Period
Speaker: Sunniva Wilberg Halvorsen, Lofotr Vikingmuseum, Museum Nord, Norway
15.40Tea
16.10The Colours of Hallstatt textiles: Investigation of 3000 years old textile dyeing techniques and contemporary application
Speaker: Regina Hofmann de Keijzer, University of Applied Arts Vienna
16.50Role of colour in costume of peoples of the Northern Caucasus
Speaker: Professor Zvezdana Dode, Stavropol University, Russia
17.30Discussion
Chair: Fiona Handley
17.45 Close
19.00Conference Dinner – see booking form.
Partners / friends welcome. ASK restaurant, 48 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DZ, is only a short walk from the Wellcome Collection. The food is traditional Italian and price, £25, includes a 3 course meal with a glass of wine / non-alcohol.
Day 2, Saturday 20th of November 2010
09.15Registration
09.50Welcome: Helen Persson
10.00Analysis of Dyes in Ancient textiles
Speaker: Dr. Richard Laursen, Boston University
10.40Languages of Color in Ancient Japan
Speaker: Dr. Mary M Dusenbury, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas
11.20Tea
11.50Colours in early Chinese textiles
Speaker: Dr. Bettina Zorn, Museum of Ethnology Vienna
12.30Discussion
Chair: TBC
12.45Lunch
14.00Pre-Columbian Red
Speaker: Dr. Elena Phipps, Independent Scholar, and Dr. Nobuko Shibayama, Research Scientist, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
14.40Cochineal: A precious source of red
Speaker: Ana Filipa Albano Serrano, New University of Lisbon
15.10Tea
15.40Archaeological evidence of purple and fake purple in the Levant: Production, Textiles and Visual Arts
Speaker: Dr. Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom
16.20Romans are Red
Speaker: Elaine Norbury
16.50Discussion
Chair: Hero Granger-Taylor
17.20Close