Knitting History Forum Conference 2021: HEADS, HANDS & FEET
- Written byInternal Communications
- Published date 08 October 2021
The LCF Research department invite you to attend the Knitting History Forum Conference 2021.
This year’s Knitting History Forum Conference is the result of an open call on the theme of Heads, Hands and Feet, examining knitted artefacts and evidence of their production and social context, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. We are delighted to present an expanded programme of ten presentations, taking place online throughout the day on Saturday 13th November 2021.
Tickets are free and open to all, but donations to Knitting History Forum are welcome by Paypal to khfcommittee@hotmail.co.uk or visit our Membership page for alternatives and details of how to join KHF. Please see below for event schedule.
Schedule:
10am - 10.30am: From fleece to fez in fifteen steps: an interpretation of the 1571 Cappers Act in the 21st century. Kirstie Buckland – Honorary President, Knitting History Forum, UK.
10.30am - 11am: Inlandic, Foreign and Speckled Stockings - Harlingen hosiery shops in the 17th C. Gieneke Arnolli - Former Curator of Fries Museum, The Netherlands.
11am - 11.30am: From anecdote to statistic: in search of quantifiable data for the volume of production and trade in hand knitted stockings made from wool in England in the later Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Lesley O-Connell Edwards - Independent Researcher UK.
Break
11.45am - 12.15pm: "3 pounds Wostid in niting”: Knitted garments in Stuart accounts. Pat Poppy – Independent Researcher, UK.
12.15pm – 12.45pm: “There are few ladies who cannot knit stockings” – Printed instructions, norms and practice in the nineteenth century. Hanna Backstrom - PhD in Textile Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Lunch break
2pm - 2.30pm: Examining the body of evidence for early knitting. Jane Malcolm-Davies - The Tudor Tailor UK/Centre for Textile Research, Copenhagen.
2.30pm - 3pm: Holy Hands: Studies of knitted liturgical gloves. Angharad Thomas – Independent Researcher, UK.
3pm - 3.30pm: From jorab (socks) to dastana (gloves): Tracing provenance of hand-knitting in the Indian subcontinent. Pragya Sharma - Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD), New Delhi, India.
Break
3.45pm - 4.15pm: Little 16th C feet: The hidden secret of Dutch Groningen´s knitted stocking of 1540. Constance Willems - designer, researcher and writer, The Netherlands.
4.15pm - 4.45pm: Knitwits: Knitting the Bluestockings. Knitting and the 18th C salon. Nicole Pohl - Oxford Brookes University, UK Coda.
4.45pm - 5pm: Classic Knits of the 1980s – a book of colourful knitwear designs by Sandy Black. Sandy Black – London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.
5.05pm: Closing remarks – Sandy Black.