Early Textiles Study Group 13Th Biannual Conference

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

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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