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Conferences
- Making Historical Dress FestivalA two day event of presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops 13th and 14th September 2024 at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Online participation also possible. For details, see https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Festival.html
- On the Edge: Textile and Garment Edges, Borders and TrimmingsEarly Textile Study Group Conference 2024 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, and online 21-22 September 2024 Preliminary Programme, Conference venue information, and Friday excursion information here Please Book through Eventbrite
Calls for Papers
- Textilian Worlds of Learning between 450 and 1400 CECall for Papers for the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2025. Textiles and textile-like materials were a fundamental part of all societies across the medieval world. While much research and practice has been undertaken on a wide variety of themes and across subjects, the role of learning — how medieval people were taught to make and learnt to understand… Read more: Textilian Worlds of Learning between 450 and 1400 CE
- Threads of Knowledge: Medieval Textiles 400-1400 CELeeds International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2025. This call for papers addresses the IMC 2025 theme of ‘Worlds of Learning’ and invites 20-minute papers on all aspects of early medieval textiles between 400-1400 CE. This session will take a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to textile features, materials, processes, uses and receptions and how those factors shaped the medieval understanding of… Read more: Threads of Knowledge: Medieval Textiles 400-1400 CE
Exhibitions and Talks
Recent Publications or News Articles
- Mendlesham Armoury Facelift ProjectMendlesham Armoury, on the small upper floor of the north porch of the church of St Mary the Virgin in mid-Suffolk, is the only one remaining in any English parish church with its original parish collection of arms and armour. They have been stored in the same place since a law of Queen Mary Tudor… Read more: Mendlesham Armoury Facelift Project
- Textile found at Santes Creus in TarragonaRestoration works at the Royal Monastery of Santes Creus in Tarragona, Spain, has resulted in to opening of eight sarcophagi adorned with heraldic symbols, aiding in the identification of the nobles entombed within as 13th and 14th century members of the Cervelló, Cervera, Queralt, Puigvert, and Montcada families. Remains of textiles were preserved around the… Read more: Textile found at Santes Creus in Tarragona
- Production of Animal-based Metal Threads in Medieval TextilesCristina Scibè, who gave a paper, ‘Animal-based metal threads: an overview of materials and manufacturing techniques in medieval Spanish, Italian and Middle Eastern textiles,’ to the 2021 MEDATS conference is the lead author of an open access article published in Nature. “Palaeoproteomics and microanalysis reveal techniques of production of animal-based metal threads in medieval textiles.”… Read more: Production of Animal-based Metal Threads in Medieval Textiles
Questions and Requests for Assistance
- Request for help – Carmelite FriarsMedats has received a request for help from Paul Chandler in Australia. Can anyone help with this question? Relies to newsletter@medats.org.uk will be forwarded. It’s well known that the Carmelite Friars exchanged their controversial striped cloak in 1287 for a more demure and “appropriate” white one. Pastoureau made (perhaps too) much of this in The… Read more: Request for help – Carmelite Friars
