NEEDLEWORK HISTORIANS
Examining Embroidered Book Binding Workshop
Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University
January 22, 2024
We were pleased to share our research and information about 16th and 17th century English embroidered books with an audience of library professionals and curators at Harvard.
South Central Renaissance Conference
"Exploring the Renaissance 2023: An International Conference"
April 27-29, 2023
November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
We are excited to share that our paper "Queen Elizabeth's Books" has been accepted as a part of the SCRC Conference which will be held in Berkeley, CA.
MEDATS
2023 Conference:
What Lies Beneath
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November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
Sunday 23 April, 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm London time, via Zoom
We are pleased to be presenting our paper "The Benefit of Wear: Examining the Support Structures of Embroidery."
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Attendance is open to all members of MEDATS without charge.
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London Shakespeare Centre and Shakespeare's Globe Second Graduate Conference
November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
February 25-26, 2022
We are excited to share our presentation "She is Mine Own: Women’s Embroidered Devotional Books in Early Modern England" as a part of the Home and Early Modernity conference.
American Historical Association
135th Annual Meeting
November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
January 7-9, 2022
We will be presenting our paper "From Pattern to Pate: An Examination of Early Modern Embroidered English Head-Coverings and their Sources" as a part of the panel "Integrative Narratives of Historical Costume in a Multifaceted Contexts" at the 135th Annual Meeting of the AHA
Sixteenth Century
Society Conference
November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
October 28-31, 2021
We’re excited to be presenting "Prayer Books of Girls and Gallants: An examination of 16th and 17th century Embroidered Book Bindings" that the Sixteenth Century Society Conference.
Guest Presenters:
Special Topic in
Material Culture New
Things: Bodies, Sexualities,
Objects, Discourse
November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
September 29, 2021
We will be presenting our paper "Elizabethan Embroidery: Gloriana's Gifts" along with a discussion of the importance of embroidery in the examination of material culture and history to our colleague Associate Professor Miranda Wilson's graduate class focused on early modern material culture and literature.
South Central Renaissance Conference and the Queen Elizabeth I Society
November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
We will be presenting "Elizabethan Embroidery: Gloriana’s Gifts and the Power of the Needle" via zoom at this online conference. This paper was originally scheduled to be presented at the 2020 Conference and was reschedule to March 25-27, 2021
135th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Cancelled: January 7-10, 2021
We will be presenting "Women Wielding Needles: Embroidery as a Vehicle to Examine the Lives of Women in Tudor England" as a part of the "Bodies, Hearts, and Hands: Recovering Gender in the Lives and Labor of Early Modern Women" panel hosted by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender at the 135th Annual meeting of the AHA.
Centuries of Cloth: Historical Approaches to the Study of Textiles
Online Conference January 12, 2021
We are excited to announce that our paper has been accepted to the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure's online Conference on historical approaches to the study of textiles. We will be presenting "Women’s Work Seen and Unseen: the Economic Influence of Needlework."
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
November 13th, 2020 at 10am via zoom
We will be presenting "Modern Convenience vs. Historically Accurate Couture: The Dilemma of Period Textiles at Heritage Sites" via zoom. This paper was originally scheduled to be presented at the 113th Annual meeting of the PCB of the AHA, exploring their theme of The Past is Always Present in historical studies, but the conference has been reorganized to be presented online.
8th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Cancelled: June 15-17, 2020
We are disappointed to announce that we will not be able to present our paper at this conference since is has been cancelled due to health and safety. concerns.We look forward to presenting "For the Woman of the House: Thomas Trevelyon’s Manuscript and Embroidery Patterns" at next year's conference.
SCRC & The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Cancelled: March 26-28, 2020
We were honored to have been accepted to present our paper "Elizabethan Embroidery: Gloriana's Gifts and the Power of the Needle" at the 2020 South Central Renaissance Conference, on the Queen Elizabeth I Society's Panel. Unfortunately, this conference was cancelled due to the coronavirus. We look forward to attending the 2021 Conference in Berkeley.
Ecclesiatical History Society Winter Meeting
January, 2020
We were pleased to present "A Woman's Communion: Embroidered Devotionals in Early Modern England," at the Ecclesiastical History Society Winter Meeting in Birmingham, England on Saturday, January 18th, 2020.
More information about the conference is available here.
Slices of Everyday Life Conference at the University of Cambridge
September, 2019
We were honored to present "Presence of the Needle: Embroidery in the Everyday Life of Early Modern Women," at the Slices of Everyday Lives conference at University of Cambridge, UK, on September 19th and 20th, 2019.
More information about the conference is available here.