All conference events take place in the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Nancy Nicholas Hall, 1300 Linden Drive.
Friday 6 December
8:30-9:15: Registration/ Light Breakfast (provided)
9:15-9:30: Welcome: Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:30-11:30: Education and Uplift
Chair: Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching Poor Girls to Sew in the Nineteenth Century
Vivienne Richmond, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
History of the Royal School of Needlework
Amy Hare, Royal School of Needlework, UK
Miss Marshall Submitted a Plan: Florence Marshall and the American Red Cross’s Wartime Knitting Program
Rebecca J. Keyel, Independent Scholar, US
Early Twentieth-Century Sewing Instruction in Higher Education
Gwendolyn Hustvedt, Texas State University, US
11:30-12:30: Visit to Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection and Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
12:30-1:45: Lunch (provided)
1:45-3:15: Publishing Textile Instruction
Chair: Sarah Carter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tracing, Tools, and Tagliente: Sixteenth-Century Instructions for Pattern Transfer and Embroidery
Hastings Sanderson, Independent Scholar, US
Teaching about Teaching Embroidery: Rethinking an Embroidery Manual in Early Modern China
Yuhang Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
The Art of Needlecraft’: Self-instruction and Social Values in the Interwar Period
Anna Konig, Arts University Bournemouth, UK
3:15-3:30: Brief Break
3:30-5:00: Teaching Textiles, Art, and Design
Chair: Jennifer Angus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Gossips: Disseminating Design in Folly Cove
Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Florence Knoll: Weaving Together the Threads of Interior Design
Natalie Sheng, Independent Scholar, US
Beneath The Cloth: Investigating Printed Textiles Pedagogy, 1970s-1980s
Helena Britt, Glasgow School of Art, UK
5:00 Opening Reception for Textile and Fashion Design Student Showcase, Ruth Davis Design Gallery, School of Human Ecology
Saturday 7 December
9:00-9:30: Light Breakfast (provided)
9:30-11:00: Preserving and Reviving Regional and National Textile Skills
Chair: Vivienne Richmond, Goldsmiths, University of London
Surviving Women, Surviving Skills: The Importance of the Cercles de Fermières in Skill Transmission in Quebec
Camille Devaux, Concordia University, Canada
The Results of the Resurgence of Textile Skills during the Arts and Crafts Movement in America to Preserve traditional Handicrafts in Puerto Rico and for Italian Immigrants
Madeline Ruggiero, Queensborough Community College (CUNY), US
New forms of silk weaving apprenticeship in contemporary rural Cambodia
Magali Berthon, Royal College of Art, UK/Fashion Institute of Technology, US
11:00-11:15: Brief Break
11:15-12:45: Teaching Textile Technologies
The Literature of Treadle-loom Weaving: How Pattern Weavers Learned Their Trade
Pat Hilts, Independent Scholar, US
A Fuller Picture: The Role of Craft Practice in the Historical Understanding of Textiles
Eliza West, Independent Scholar, US
The Carpet Laboratory: A Case Study on the Dissemination of Knowledge and Teaching in the Soviet Carpet Industry
Sohee Ryuk, Columbia University, US
12:45-2:15: Lunch (provided)
2:15-4:15: Learning from Textiles
British Sailors and the Emotional Potential of “Show and Do”
Maya Wassell Smith, University of Cardiff, UK
“The Revival of the Arts of Our Grandmothers”: Woven Coverlets as Object Lessons in Early Twentieth-Century America
Ellen Adams, Alice T. Miner Museum, US
Teaching and Learning Textiles in Pakistan: From Homeschooling to Lessons of Modern Marketing
Rohma Khan, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan and Shabnam Syed Khan, Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design, Pakistan
Learning to Read Historic Textiles: A Case Study from The Antonio Ratti Textile Center at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Elena Kanagy-Loux and Eva Labson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, US
4:15-4:30: Closing Remarks
