International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 5-8, 2005)

Session 223: Dress and Textiles I: Cloth Trade and Traders

• Flax and Linen Production in Medieval Russia: The Evidence.
  Heidi M. Sherman, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis (USA)
• Fripperers and Their Trade: Secondhand Clothiers in Late Medieval London. Kathryn Kelsey Staples, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis (USA)

Session 265: Dress and Textiles II: Pretty and Practical

• A Stitch in Time: Fastening "Tara"-Type Brooches in Early Medieval Ireland.
  Niamh Whitfield, Morley College, London (UK)
• A Grain of Truth: The Symbolism of the Barleycorn in Scandinavian Medieval Costume. M. A. Nordtorp-Madson, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (USA)
• Multi-Page Bookmarkers: Tiny Textiles and Diverse Passementerie Hidden in Books. Lois Swales, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)

Session 328: Dress and Textiles III: Child and Man

• Representations of Reality: Anglo-Saxon Vestments. Sarah Larratt Keefer, Trent University, Peterborough, ON (CANADA)
• Children's Clothing in the Lisle Letters, 1533-1540. Melanie Schuessler, Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, SC (USA)
• Clothes Make the Man: The Transition from Juvenile to Adult Clothing in the Paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Katherine Terlep, Chicago, IL (USA)

Session 569: Dress and Textiles IV: Looking East

• From West to East: Telling a Story through Costume in Carved Ivory.
  Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
• "More Barbarorum": Orientalism, Cumans, and Their Dress in Late Medieval Central Europe. Annamaria Kovacs, Irving, TX (USA)