Precious Cloth and Court Culture (400-1600AD)
September 16-17, 2017
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
Day 1, Saturday 16 September, 2017
9.00 Registration
10.00 Welcome by Conference Convenor: Anna Muthesius
10.05 Mix and match: textile furnishings at the English Court 1300–1470AD
Lisa Monnas, independent scholar, London
10.50 Questions and discussion
11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.30 The damask dalmatic of St. Ambrose: a reassessment of this top quality late 4th-century silk
Hero Granger-Taylor, independent scholar, London
12.00 Clothing the warrior king: costume and textiles to promote the emergent kingships of Early Anglo-Saxon England
Penelope Walton Rogers, Anglo-Saxon Laboratory,
Visiting Fellow, University of York
12.40 Questions and discussion
13.00 Buffet Lunch
14.00 Sixteenth century gold lace as reflected in portraits of Elizabeth I and by later period ecclesiastical furnishing
Dr. Lena Dahrén, Department of Textile History, Uppsala University, Sweden
14.45 ”Thre Cusshions of clothe of gold tissued”: the role of luxury textiles in court culture during the reign of Henry VIII
Dr. Maria Hayward, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Southampton
15.15 Questions and discussion
15.30 Tea/Coffee
16.00 ‘Silk as power’ at the Byzantine court: cross-influences along the Silk Road (Latin West/Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean/ Near East)
Dr. Anna Muthesius, Professor of Textile Studies retired.
Fellow Commoner, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
16.45 Questions and discussion and close of day one
17.30 E.T.S.G. business meeting
19.00 Lucy Cavendish College formal dinner
Included for all residential delegates. Non-residential delegates wishing to participate are required to book and pay for the dinner in advance, as directed on the booking form
Day 2, Sunday 17 September, 2017
8.00 Breakfast for residential delegates
9.00 Registration for single day delegates
10.00 Evidence of precious cloths in the Javanese Singhasari court of King Krtanagara (1258-1292)
Lesley Pullen, doctoral award pending, SOAS, University of London
10.45 Questions and discussion
11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.30 Badges of rank at the Chinese Court (14-16 centuries)
Christopher Hall, TMF Group, Chris Hall collection of Chinese Textiles, Hong Kong
12.00 From heaven to earth: transformations of motifs on Ming court robes (14-16 centuries)
Sally Yu Leung, Trustee, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, USA
12.30 Questions and discussion
13.00 Buffet Lunch
13.45 Practical demonstration of lecture-related textile techniques/constructions
14.30 Precious Cloth at the Castilian court (12-13 centuries)
María Barrigón Montañés, museum Curator, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
15.15 Ottoman Turkish ceremonial court attire and furnishings: symbols of power and dynastic heritage
Sibel Alpaslan Arça, Curator of the Textile collection, Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
16.00 Questions and discussion
16.30 Tea/Coffee
17.00 Practical demonstrations
17.45 Summing up of conference and farewell
by conference convenor Anna Muthesius
