Janet Arnold Showcase: Textile Culture, Social Fabric, and the Unravelling of Material History

This one-day conference organised by Dr Linda Grant FSA and Dr Anouska Lester explores different ways of approaching the cultural and historical contexts of textiles, dress, and fashion, spanning different regions and time periods. This event will showcase recent research that bridges both theory and practice, exploring a range of textiles from the infamous ‘Greensleeves’ of sixteenth-century England to current revivals of nineteenth-century traditions in the Philippines.
Speakers include: Professor Mina Roces (University of New South Wales), Professor Matthew McCormack (University of Northampton), Dr Meg Kobza (University of Newcastle), Dr Kathy Haslam FSA (Kelmscott Manor), Tamsin Lewis (Passamezzo), and Ann French (Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester).
There will be an opportunity to view textiles, manuscripts, and prints from our library, archive and museum collections, including a rarely seen section of the pall thought to have been used at Prince Arthur's funeral in 1502.
Janet Arnold (1932-98) was a dress historian, costume designer, and teacher, best known for her Patterns of Fashion series. Arnold was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and each year we award grants to further original research into the history of dress and the materials from which it is made.
This lecture was sponsored and hosted by the Society of Antiquaries of London in its apartments at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. The Society recorded the proceedings and, with permission of the speaker(s), made them available online here, and on its website at www.sal.org.uk. All rights reserved.