2019 Conference – Wool: Cloth, Clothing and Culture Date: 6 April, 2019 Time: 11:00 am - 5:30 pm The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century. By special permission of the city of Bayeux Saint Stephen's Church Hall ‘A warm house for the wits’: The craft, trade or science of capping Kirstie Buckland, Independent scholar Home or away? Woollens, worsteds and the “industrious revolution” in England’ John Styles, The University of Hertfordshire Hanging by a thread: Anticipating structural damage in Tudor Tapestries through the study of photo-oxidation in historic wool Nanette Kissi, Independant Scholar Turning wool into silk: How sixteenth century craftspeople created legal luxuries Jane Malcolm-Davies, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen The “industry” of knitting of wool stockings in later 16th century England, especially Norwich Lesley O’Connell Edwards, MSc student in English Local Studies at the University of Oxford The first cowl of St Francis of Assisi and the mantle of Bishop Guido Maria Giorgi, Adjunct Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and Independent Textiles conservator and Conservation Consultant The St Clare intermediate tunic Tina Anderlini, Independent scholar and published author Distaff spinning: a forgotten aspect of medieval wool textile production Mary A. M. Cleaton, Jane Hunt, Alice R. Evans & Cathelina de Alessandri
