Session 79: Dress and Textiles I: Art and Reality
- The Use of Textiles in Religious Ritual: Sacred "Cloth" in the Armenian Rite
Marlene Breu, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and Ronald Marchese, University of Minnesota-Duluth (USA)
- Why Valerie Wears Polka Dots: The Limitation of Medium on Twelfth-Century Enamels
Marcia Schlemm, Kansas City, MO (USA)
- "With Tars and with Tafeta:" The Symbolic Use of Fabric and Dress in Six Middle English Alliterative Poems
Patricia A. Price, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis (USA)
Session 125: Dress and Textiles II: Practical Considerations
- Medieval Knitting in the Islamic World and Spain
Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis IN (USA)
- Lower-Class Flemish Women's Dress of the Later Sixteenth Century
Drea Leed, Springfield, OH (USA)
- The Fifteenth-Century V-Neck Gown
Robin Netherton, Annandale, VA (USA)
