Recreative practice can tell us far more than the processes by which a garment of the past was made. It offers insights into bodily labour, cultural priorities, and social practices of the past. But how should researchers go about recovering this information? From chemistry experiments, digital remaking, and citizen science projects to making in the classroom and reflective auto-ethnography, the methods used to approach remaking are diverse. This workshop seeks to explore the methods, skills, training, and access required to approach remaking as a historical method in dress history.
Programme
9.20 - Welcome
, Serena Dyer and Sarah Bendall
9.30 - Keynote – Alka Raman, Chair: Sarah Bendall
Charting Chintz: The
Journey of Knowledge Transfer from India to Europe
10.30 - Tea Break
11.00 - Panel One: Making
as Method, Chair:
Sarah Bendall
Helen
Wyld
Learning through weaving: Re-creating an 18th-century Swedish
coverlet
Laurie
Rees
Remaking the Lydia Lawrence bonnet: an ‘experimental
conservation’ approach to collections care and exploration of melding modern
digital techniques with past making processes
Anni
Shepherd
Reflections in the Waves: a Retrospective on the Petticoat
Project
Anna
Sverdlova
Practice as Research: Reconstruction of Russian Kokoshnik
Emma
Treleaven
One size fits all: Experiments in 19th century Shoemaking and
Slipper Embroidery
12.30 -
Lunch
13.15 - Keynote – Abby Cox, Chair: Serena Dyer
Altering the Stitch: Shifting Historic Dressmaking
Methodologies for Different Audiences
14.15 - Tea Break
14.30 - Keynote – Rebecca Morrison, Chair: Sarah Bendall
Unpicking Process:
experiments in recreating and reimagining the methods of making
16.00 - Panel
Two: Pushing Methodological Boundaries
,
Chair: Serena Dyer
Dustin
Neighbours
In the Absence of Materiality: Digitally Reconstructing the
‘Lost Dress’ of Elizabeth I of England
Zara
Kesterton
Petals to pixels: Using digital recreation to insert flowers
into the picture of eighteenth-century French fashion
Suzanne
Rowland and Veronica Isaac
Remaking as a pedagogic methodology: case studies from the
University of Brighton
Viktor
Heegaard
The Sincerely Scientific Tailor – Pattern Cutting and Science
in the Eighteenth Century
Bronwyn
Clarke
The Tyranny of Distance: Making and remaking in colonial and
contemporary rural Australia
17.00 -
Roundtable
, Keynotes &
Organisers
17.30 - Close
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