Dress and Textile News

Calls for Papers and Conferences

Textilian Worlds of Learning between 450 and 1400 CE
Call for Papers for the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2025. Textiles and textile-like materials were a fundamental part of all societies across the medieval world. While much research and practice has been undertaken on a wide variety of themes and across subjects, the role of learning — how medieval people were taught to make and learnt to understand… Read more: Textilian Worlds of Learning between 450 and 1400 CE
On the Edge: Textile and Garment Edge, Borders and Trimmings
Early Textile Study Group Conference 2024 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, and online 21-22 September 2024 Preliminary Programme, Conference venue information, and Friday excursion information here Please Book through Eventbrite
Threads of Knowledge: Medieval Textiles 400-1400 CE
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2025. This call for papers addresses the IMC 2025 theme of ‘Worlds of Learning’ and invites 20-minute papers on all aspects of early medieval textiles between 400-1400 CE. This session will take a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to textile features, materials, processes, uses and receptions and how those factors shaped the medieval understanding of… Read more: Threads of Knowledge: Medieval Textiles 400-1400 CE

Mendlesham Armoury Facelift Project
Mendlesham Armoury, on the small upper floor of the north porch of the church of St Mary the Virgin in mid-Suffolk, is the only one remaining in any English parish church with its original parish collection of arms and armour. They have been stored in the same place since a law of Queen Mary Tudor… Read more: Mendlesham Armoury Facelift Project
Textile found at Santes Creus in Tarragona
Restoration works at the Royal Monastery of Santes Creus in Tarragona, Spain, has resulted in to opening of eight sarcophagi adorned with heraldic symbols, aiding in the identification of the nobles entombed within as 13th and 14th century members of the Cervelló, Cervera, Queralt, Puigvert, and Montcada families. Remains of textiles were preserved around the… Read more: Textile found at Santes Creus in Tarragona
Production of Animal-based Metal Threads in Medieval Textiles
Cristina Scibè, who gave a paper, ‘Animal-based metal threads: an overview of materials and manufacturing techniques in medieval Spanish, Italian and Middle Eastern textiles,’ to the 2021 MEDATS conference is the lead author of an open access article published in Nature. “Palaeoproteomics and microanalysis reveal techniques of production of animal-based metal threads in medieval textiles.”… Read more: Production of Animal-based Metal Threads in Medieval Textiles