Making Historical Dress Festival
A two day event of presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops
13th and 14th September 2023 | De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Keynotes
Friday Keynote
Ulinka Rublack
Animating Albrecht
Dürer´s Cloaks
Saturday Keynotes
Paula Hohti
Knitting
History through Reconstruction: The Making and Meaning of Early Modern
Stockings
Serena Dyer
Labour of the
Stitch: Making and Remaking Fashionable Georgian Dress
Sarah Bendall
Investigating Bents: Using Recreative Practice
to examine a Material of Early Modern Fashion
Hilary Davidson
Expanding the Embodied Turn: Issues and
Directions in Remaking
Remaking to Reveal
A Stitch in Time: The Royal School of Needlework and recreated stitch
Eleri Lynn and Anne Butcher
Piecing Together the Past: Reconstructing A Closed Front Sacque Gown
Margaret O’Neil
Uncovering Hidden Garments in Historic Collections: Exploring the
afterlife of clothing through reconstruction
Elizabeth Elliott
Power in the Margin: People of color in dress history & costuming
Gigi Coulson
The Creative Power of Collaborations
Studying
Stitches: Examining Seventeenth-Century Embroidery as Researchers and Makers
Isabella Rosner and Marg Dier
Taking Theatrical License: Can collaboration and creativity overcome
the potential pitfalls of recreative practice?
Veronica Isaac and Rebecca Morrison
Decolonising fashion from historical sewing to community weaving
Laura Beltrán-Rubio
Curating INSPIRED: The Art of Making Historical Fashion
Elinor Camille-Wood
Recreating Masculinities
Purposes and Plans
for Reconstruction: Liveries from the Courts of Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X of
Bavaria
Sophia Feist
Embodying the
mediaeval: what can “experimental history” teach us about late mediaeval and
early modern masculine dress?
Ari Ibsen
Clothing the Body
or the Body in Clothing: A doublet of the Verney Family, c 1645
Amy Miller and Alison Beadnell
Missing Bodies
Displaying Ms
Thielcke’s Apron: Historical dress recreation as a method in understanding a
forgotten figure of Queen Charlotte’s household
Polly Putnam and
Katica Laza
Greensleeves –
Recreating 16th Century clothing and accessories from a literary source
Tamsin Lewis
The Performance of
the Corset in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel
Charlotte Bailey
Lost Skills
From Qipao to
Dajinshan: How Heritage Skills can Inform Recreative Practice
Laurence Wen-Yu Li
Grandma, Mother,
Daughter, Made: Exploring Three Generations of Home Dressmaking and
Dress-related Craft
Chelsea Mountney
Learning through
weaving: Re-creating an 18th-century Swedish coverlet
Helen Wyld
Remaking Histories
in Archives and Heritage Sites
A Sociological
Exploration of the Wearing of Period Clothing and Challenging Historical
Preconceptions in Scottish Heritage Sites
Ellie Birchall
Knitting the
Woman’s Woolly: A Creative Archive Response
Becky Male
Connecting the
public to archives through costuming
Caitlin Sheldon
