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Session 318: Dress and Textiles I: Makers and Methods
- Rigid Heddle and Weaving Sword: Images of Band Weaving in the Manesse Codex
Cindy Ruesink, Madison, IN (USA)
- The Sign of Some Degree: The "Mystery" of Capping
Kirstie Buckland, The Knitting History Forum (UK)
- Silk Dyers and the Growth of Fashion in Late Medieval Italy
Carole Collier Frick, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (USA)
Session 398: Dress and Textiles II: Clothing and the Church
- Investing a Vestment with Value: The Interpretation of the Pallium in the Latin Church (c. 800-c. 1200)
Steven A. Schoenig, S.J., Columbia University, New York City (USA)
- Taking the Veil: Anglo-Saxon Women Religious and Liminal Symbolism
Janet Gilligan, Wayne State College, NE (USA)
- Female Saints in Rupestrian Paintings in Apulia and Basilicata: Tradition or Fashion?
Luisa Derosa, University of Bari (ITALY)
- Donations from the Body for the Soul: Apparel, Devotion, and Status in Late Medieval Strasbourg
Charlotte A. Stanford, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (USA)
Session 455: Dress and Textiles III: Clothing, Critics, and Class
- Dressing Up in Sin: Pride and Clothing in Nicole Bozon's "Char d'Orgueil"
Laurie Postlewate, Barnard College, New York City (USA)
- Women's Dress in Renaissance Venice: Matron or Courtesan?
Jasmin Cyril, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant (USA)
- "Mighty in her Resources but Mightier in Virtue": The Female Image as a Personification of Renaissance Venice
Tawny Sherrill, California State University, Long Beach (USA)
Session 506: Dress and Textiles IV: Dress in Art and Life
- Three Embroidered Alms Purses: The Process of Production in Paris at the Beginning of the 14th Century
Nancy Feldman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL (USA)
- Your Mommy Dresses You Funny: A Comparison of Personal and Professional Clothing Construction Techniques in Late Antiquity
Linda M. Blowney, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA)
- Anomaly or Sole Survivor? The Impruneta Cushion and Early Italian Patchwork
Lisa Evans, Easthampton, MA (USA)
