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Session 73: Dress and Textiles I: Threads and Fibers
- Evidence for Roundels in Viking Age Embroidery from Bjerringhøj, Mammen Parish, Denmark
Raven Alexandra Fagelson, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
- Fur, Feathers, Skin, Fiber, Wood: Representational Techniques in the Bayeux Tapestry
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, University of Manchester (UK)
- Flax and Linen in Medieval Novgorod
Heidi M. Sherman, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (USA)
- Distaff, Whorl, and Wheel: Medieval Views of Spinning
Janilee Plummer, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (USA)
Session 130: Dress and Textiles II: Inside and Outside the Church
- Mary's Pregnancy as Birth Amulet: Evidence from Early Byzantine Textiles
Andrea K. Olsen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA)
- Anglo-Saxon Textile Workshops, Religious and Secular: The Textual Evidence
Maren Clegg Hyer, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA (USA)
- The Early Fifteenth-Century O'Dea Miter and Crosier, and Other Treasures of Irish Artistry from Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick
Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, University College, Cork (Ireland)
Session 560: Dress and Textiles III: Heroes, Ladies, and Fools
- Invisibility Cloaks and Magic Belts: Garments and Fashion Accessories in the Dietrich Cycle
Chiara Benati, Università degli Studi di Genova (ITALY)
- Pulling the Wool over Our Eyes: How the Heroine's Clothing (Un)Makes the Man in Jean Renart's Roman de la rose
Kathryn Talarico, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY (USA)
- Getting Dressed in Chretien de Troyes's Perceval
Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Session 595: Dress and Textiles IV: Long Ago and Far Away
- Merovingian Fashion: Asking the Buried about What They Wore
Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University, Columbus (USA)
- Wefts and Worms: Silk Weaving and Sericulture in the West before 1200 CE
Rebecca Woodward Wendelken, Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC (USA)
- Imagined Fashion: Three Fifteenth-Century French Artists and Their Travel-Book Pictures
John Block Friedman, Kent State University, Salem, OH (USA)
In addition to the above sessions, DISTAFF presented a "Medieval Dress/Textile Arts Display and Demonstration" on May 7.
