2010

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Session 121: Travelling Textiles
• Turkish Carpets and their Travels to England
  Anne Reaves, Marian University, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
• Anglo-Saxon Embroidery on the Move
  Alexandra M. Lester-Makinn, Stockport (UK)
• Heraldic Devices in the Bayeux Tapestry
  Michael John Lewis, London (UK)
• Travels in Time: The Bayeux Tapestry and its Heirs
  Anna Cordelia Henderson, University of Exeter Press / Manchester University (UK)

Session 321: Fashion and Furnishings

• Sacred and Profane: An Examination of Sienese Women's Dress in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government
  Jasmin Cyril, Benedict College, Columbia, SC (USA)
• The Virtue of Fashion: Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in 14th- and 15th-Century England
  Valija Evalds, University of Kansas, Lawrence (USA)
• Wrapped Cities: On the Relationship of Textile and Space in Persian Architecture
  Saeid Khaghani, Shahrood University of Technology (IRAN)

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Session 81: Dress and Textiles I: Real and Imagined

• A Clever One-Liner: Evidence for an Alternate Set-Up of the Warp-Weighted Loom
  Christina Petty, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (USA)
• Problems of Byzantine "Fashions," Vrai and Faux: Finery and Its Imitations at the Imperial Court and Beyond
  Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University, Columbus (USA)
• Costume in the Medieval Welsh Romances
  Heather Rose Jones, Oakland, CA (USA)
• Do the Clothes Make the (Wo)man? Warfare, Amazonian Women, Gender, and Appearance in Real Life and Literature
  Colleen Slater, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY (USA)

Session 136: Dress and Textiles II: Imagined and Re-imagined

• Recycle, Reduce, Reuse: Imagined and Re-imagined Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England
  Maren Clegg Hyer, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA (USA)
• Men in Silk: The Knighting of Saladin in the Old French "Ordene de chevalerie"
  E. Jane Burns, University of North Carolina.Chapel Hill (USA)
• Iron Maiden: The Re-classification of the Metal "Corset"
  Emma Elizabeth Lehman, University of Nebraska.Lincoln (USA)
• Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Clothing in Film
  Melanie Schuessler, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti (USA)

Session 448: Dress and Textiles III: Researching the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing ca. 700.1450 [Co-sponsored with The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project]

• Third Floor: Socks, Frocks, Crocs, and Knives: "Furnishing" as a Category in a Class Glossary
  Stuart Nels Rutten, University of Manchester (UK)
• Units of Measure for Cloth in Late Medieval Britain
  Mark Chambers, University of Westminster (UK)
• Mining for Gold: Investigating Multilingualism in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing
  Louise Sylvester, University of Westminster (UK)

Session 498: Dress and Textiles IV: Illustrating the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project Database [Co-sponsored with The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project]

• Depiction and Description: Dress across Media Boundaries
  Cordelia Warr, University of Manchester (UK)
• Showing Status on Funeral Monuments
  Pam Walker, University of Manchester (UK)
• Grand Designs, Grand Behinds: Description and Uses of Cushions and Pillows in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval England
  Linda Sever, University of Manchester (UK)