Currently, there is little cohesion or even field-wide acceptance of key terms and methods relating to making practices in dress history. Terms range from ‘experimental history’ (here borrowing from archaeology) to ‘reconstruction’, ‘remaking’ and ‘re-creating’ to name a few. This workshop will define these methodological approaches in dress history and develop a field-wide consensus on how we should discuss experimental making practices.
9.30 - Registration and Coffee
9.50 - Welcome
Serena Dyer and Sarah Bendall
10 - Keynote - Hilary Davidson
Expanding the Embodied Turn: Issues and Directions in Remaking
Chair: Serena Dyer
11 - Tea Break
11.30 - Panel One: Defining Making Methods
Chair: Sarah Bendall
Hannah Wroe
Maker first: Reflections on my research toolkit
Eleanor Gilchrist
How to Crochet like it’s 1837: Educated guesses and trial and error as a research method
Amanda Nichols
Repeat, Replay: Replicating methods from the past to inform contemporary fashion and costume practices
Catriona Fisk & Sarah Bendall
Recreating Maternity Stays: Creative Experiments and Lessons in Failure
12.45 - Lunch
13.30 - Keynote - Jane Malcolm-Davies
Structuring reconstructions: Taking a systematic approach to scholarly experimentation
Chair: Sarah Bendall
14.30 - Tea Break
15.00 - Panel Two: Terms, Fields, and Possibilities
Chair: Serena Dyer
Nathalie Schiffer
Bridging The Gap: The role of reproduction in deciphering unknown words
Elise Maynard
Experimental Archaeology in the Rediscovery of Lost Costume
Scarlett Butler
Fit for a queen: A Fat Studies approach to early modern dress reconstruction
Peigi Anna Urquhart
Reconstructing the Essence
Claire Batt
Kimono from a Different Angle
16.15 - Roundtable
Serena Dyer, Sarah Bendall, Hilary Davidson, Jane Malcolm Davies
17.00 Close
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