Past conference sessions sponsored by DISTAFF

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2009

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 7-10, 2009)

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.

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 13-16, 2009)

Session 301: Decoration and Disguise
• Dress Detail in the Alabaster Tombs at All Saints Church, Harewood
  Elizabeth S. Benns, Soper Lane, Baldock (UK)
• Church Embroideries of the Anglo-Saxon Period
  Alexandra M. Lester-Makin, Stockport (UK)
• Shape-Shifting in the Early Christian North: The Animal Skin as Costume or Disguise
  Michelle A. Nordtorp-Madson, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (USA)

Session 726: Copes and Cloaks

• Having the Last Laugh: The Fabliau of the Red Cloak in Ivory
  Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)
• Joseph's Coat of Many Descriptions: Description of Joseph's Tunic in Medieval Britain
  Stuart Nels Rutten, University of Manchester (UK)
• Wandering Copes: The Exchange of Religious Vestments between England and Italy in the Middle Ages
  Lucia Sinisi, Università degli Studi di Bari (ITALY)

2008

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 8-11, 2008)

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)

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 7-10, 2008)

Session 524: Natural and Social Threads
• A Survey of Coptic Textiles in Pennsylvania
  Linda M. Blowney, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA)
• The Wet-Spinning of Flax
  Nahum Ben-Yehuda, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan (ISRAEL)
• Dressing Up the Nuns: The Lingua Ignota and Hildegard of Bingen's Clothing
  Sarah Higley, University of Rochester, NY (USA)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 10-13, 2007)

Session 130: Dress and Textiles I: Clothing and Politics
• Female Costume and Royal Patronage in the Fourteenth Century: The Case of Elizabeth the Elder, Queen of Hungary
  Annamaria Kovacs, Irving, TX (USA)
• The Devil Made Them Wear It: The Politics of Satirizing Fashion in Poetry
  Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
• Cloak and Dagger: Treason and Clothing in Tudor England
  Melanie Schuessler, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti (USA)

Session 223: Dress and Textiles II: Fabrics in Text and Life

• Fabrics in French Medieval Literature: Toward a Taxonomy
  Monica L. Wright, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro (USA)
• Morality and Material Culture: Representation of Dress and Metaphorical Worth in Three Middle English Poems
  Patricia A. Price, California State University-San Marcos (USA)
• Changes in the English Fifteenth-Century Cloth Industry and the Effect on Urban and Rural Clothmaking
  John Oldland, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec (CANADA)

Session 297: Dress and Textiles III: Dress in Art and Life

• The Marriage of the Year (1027): Clothing and Society in Medieval Apulia
  Lucia Sinisi, Università di Bari (ITALY)
• Dressing Up: Representations of Fashion on Some French Gothic Ivory Writing Tablets
  Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
• The Development of Men's Dress and Armor in the Quattrocento in Italy: Form and Function
  Jasmin W. Cyril, Ringwood, NJ (USA)

Session 362: Dress and Textiles IV: Extant Garments and Accessories

• Hooked on Eyes: Scandinavian Decorative Hook and Eye Sets from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
  Anne Marie Decker, Tracy’s Landing, MD (USA)
• The Medieval Shepherd's Purse: Artifact or Artistic Motif?
  Heather Rose Jones, Oakland, CA (USA)
• The Bare Essentials: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Underwear Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
  Kathy Page, St. George, Ontario (CANADA)

In addition to the above sessions, DISTAFF presented a "Medieval Textile/Textile Arts Display and Demonstration," May 10, 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. DISTAFF members exhibited reproduction textile and dress items, handmade using medieval methods and materials, including textiles, decorative treatments, garments, and dress accessories. Exhibitors demonstrated techniques and were available to discuss the use of historic evidence in reproducing artifacts of material culture.

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 9-12, 2007)

Session 1006: Clothing, Law, and Art
• Dress for Festive Occasions and Mourning: Propriety and Strategies of Values in Early Medieval Frankish and Insular Law Codes
  Olga Magoula, University of Birmingham (UK)
• Clerical Regulation of Women's Garb: The Legatine Constitution of Cardinal Latino Malabranca
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA)
• Sumptuous Objects in the Age of Sumptuary Laws: Fashion on Gothic Ivories
  Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)

Session 1201: New Thoughts on Old Textiles

• Visual Poetry: Micro-Narratives in the Nordic Oral Tradition, A Reading of the Overhogdal Tapestry
  Lena Elisabeth Norrman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (USA)
• A Repository of Anglo-Saxon Embroidery: Anglo-Saxon Stitches and their Modern Counterparts
  Alexandra Mary Lester, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
• An Investigation on the Relationship between Textiles and Loom Types Based on a Study of Medieval Textiles from Lödöse and Lübeck
  Kathrine Vestergaard, Kobenhavns Universitet (Denmark)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 4-7, 2006)

Session 370: Dress and Textiles I: Weaving and Spinning
• Hunting for Haberdashery: Depictions of Men's Clothing in the Cloisters Unicorn Tapestries.
  Miranda Howard Haddock, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (USA)
• Weavers and Spinners in the Wool, Silk, and Linen Industries n Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Comparative Analysis.
  Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
• It's Only Rock and Reel: Medieval Spinning Techniques.
  Jennifer Munson, Pennsburg, PA (USA)

Session 421: Dress and Textiles II: Renaissance Venice

• Who Was Cesare Vecellio? Placing Habiti Antichi in Context.
  Tawny Sherrill, California State University, Long Beach (USA)
• A Merchant of Venice and a Weaver of Crete: Records of a Late-15th-Century Trading Relationship .
  Eleanor A. Congdon, Youngstown State University, OH (USA)
• Patricians on Parade: Dressing the Young Venetian Nobleman .
  Verna Rutz, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO (USA)

Session 470: Dress and Textiles III: Techniques with Thread

• Embroidered Manuscripts from Weingarten Abbey.
  Christine Sciacca, Columbia University, New York (USA)
• "The Same Counterpoincte Beinge Olde and Worenen": The Green Silk Quilt of Henry VIII.
  Lisa Evans, Easthampton, MA (USA)
• No Ground to Stand On: Three-Dimensional Needlewrought Passementerie, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.
  Lois Swales, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)

Session 530: Dress and Textiles IV: Headwear

• Headwear and Women's Status in Early Medieval Francia: Archeological Perspectives.
  Olga Magoula, University of Birmingham (UK)
• The Art of the Exotic: Robinet Testard's Turbans and Turban-Like Coiffure, 1471-1530.
  John B. Friedman, Kent State University, Salem, OH (USA)
• The French Hood: The Development of a Sixteenth-Century Court Fashion .
  Melanie Schuessler, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti (USA)

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 10-13, 2006)

Session 226: Textile Manufacture and Trade
• Daily Molested, Vexed, and Troubled: The True Making of Woollen Cloth .
  Alison Kirstie Buckland, Quality Caps, Monmouth (UK)
• What Do You Want for that Piece of "Zambelotti"?
  Eleanor A. Congdon, Youngstown State University, OH (USA)
• Garnysshing the Kinges Books.
  Elizabeth Benns, Soper Lane, Baldock (UK)

Session 326: Textile as Imitation

• A Sincere Form of Flattery: Embroidered Imitations of Figured Silks in the Early Byzantine Period.
  Linda M. Blowney, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
• Wearing her Heart on his Sleeve?: Embroidered Imitation and Amorous (Un)Convention in the Prose Cliges (1454).
  Rebecca Dixon, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter (UK)

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)

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 11-14, 2005)

Session 703: Talking about Textiles
• The Ambiguous Vocabulary of Textile Decoration: Obscuring the Artisan's Hand.
  Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University, Columbus (USA)
• Textile Terms and Cultural Codes in Medieval Latin Sources: Vitta and Velum.
  Olga Magoula, University of Birmingham (UK)
• Controlled Vocabularies in the Research Process and Indexing.
  Miranda Haddock, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (USA)
Session 804: Transforming Textiles
• From Bills to Wills: The Life of a Gown in Tudor England.
  Drea Leed, Springfield, OH (USA)
• Scarlet to Blue to Black: Changing Tastes in Medieval Europe (14th-16th Centuries).
  John H. A. Munro, University of Toronto (CANADA)
• Crimson, Purple, and Blue: The Prestigious Colours of Medieval Europe.
  John Edmonds, Amersham (UK)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 6-9, 2004)

Session 348: Dress and Textiles I: Creating Textiles
• "De Fil d'Or et de Soie": Making Textiles in Medieval French Texts.
  Monica L. Wright, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro (USA)
• Aragon/Catalonia, Venice, and Wool: Antonio Contarini's 1403 Brag.
  Eleanor A. Congdon, Youngstown State University, OH (USA)
• Why Is Mary Tablet Weaving?
  Miranda Howard Haddock, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (USA)
Session 400: Dress and Textiles II: Cloth Trade and Traders
• Saracen Silk and the Virgin's Chemise: Cloth Trade from East to West.
  E. Jane Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
• Drapers, Tailors, and Fripiers: Shopping for New (or Slightly Used) Clothing in Medieval France.
  Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University, Columbus (USA)
• Cloth of Gold and Saracen Almspurses: The Role of Paris in the International Cloth Market of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
  Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
Session 510: Dress and Textiles III: Jewelry and Accessories
• The Doney Ring: An Early Fifteenth-Century Gold Iconographic Ring from Cornwall.
  Joanna Mattingly, Truro, Cornwall (UK)
• The Jeweled Fur Piece of the Renaissance.
  Tawny Sherrill, California State University, Long Beach (USA)
• A Survey of Medieval and Early Modern Silk Tassels.
  Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
Session 608: Dress and Textiles IV: Interpreting Archaeological Artifacts
• Regalia in Ireland in the Hiberno-Viking Period as Described in "The Wooing of Becfhola".
  Niamh Whitfield, Morley College, London (UK)
• A Set of Medieval Buttons Recently Excavated in Cork City, County Cork, Ireland.
  Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, University College, Cork (IRELAND)
• Nalbinding or Not?: Some Structural Differences Between Nalbinding and Other Non-woven Textile Techniques.
  Anne Marie Haymes, Snohomish, WA (USA)

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 12-15, 2004)

Session 709: Textile in Transition
• One of a Kind: A Purse with Late Medieval Designs but Early Modern Techniques.
  Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
• Anglo-Saxon Embroidery: Sutton Hoo to the Cuthbert Vestment
• From Functional to Decorative?
  Alexandra M. Lester, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
• Naughty or Not: The Late Elizabethan Embroidered Jacket.
  Danielle Nunn-Weinberg, University of Manchester (UK)
Session 809: Textiles in Context
• Text and Textiles: Early Medieval Embroidered Inscriptions.
  Elizabeth Coatsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
• One Quilt or Two?: A Reconstruction of the Guicciardini Tristan Embroidery and its Narrative.
  Sarah E. M. Randles, Australian National University, Sydney (AUSTRALIA)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 8-11, 2003)

Session 327: Dress and Textiles I: Martial Clothing and Fashion
• "The Perfect Knight": Knighthood and Martial Clothing in 14th-Century Hungary.
  Annamaria Kovacs, Irving, TX (USA)
• The Influence of Sassanid Military Clothing on Early Byzantine Court Fashion.
  Linda M. Blowney, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
• Pourpoint, Gambeson, Aketon: Practical Considerations for Under-Armor Clothing.
  Elizabeth Johnson and Joann Socash, La Belle Compagnie, Herndon, VA (USA)
Session 448: Dress and Textiles II: Dress and Textiles for Special Occasions
• Civic Fabric: Dressing the Environment in Late Medieval England.
  Patricia A. Price, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis (USA)
• Wrapped in a Blue Mantle: Fashions for Icelandic Slayers?
  Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
• Gods, Nymphs, and Irishmen: Symbolism and Meaning in Masque Costume.
  Drea Leed, Springfield, OH (USA)
Session 513: Dress and Textiles III: Interpreting Archaeological Finds
• Shrouded in History: Burial Customs and Costumes in Medieval Northern Europe.
  M. A. Nordtorp-Madson, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (USA)
• Dead Men Talking: What the Textiles at Birka Can Tell Us.
  Cathy Ostrom Peters, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
• Nothing But Net: Deriving a Logical Construction Hypothesis for an Extant 14th-Century Hairnet.
  Cindy Myers, Loveland, OH (USA)

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 14-17, 2003)

Session 215: Power Dressing
• The Dress and Prerogatives of the Clergy in Synodal Legislation 1215-1463.
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA)
• Clothing and Status in Select 15th-Century English Wills.
  Danielle Nunn-Weinberg, University of Manchester (UK)
• Dress and Authority in the Bayeux "Tapestry".
  Gale R. Owen-Crocker, University of Manchester (UK)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 2-5, 2002)

Session 99: Dress and Textiles I: Dress and Textiles in French and Flemish Art
• Material Evidence for Dating Jan van Eyck's Madonna by the Fountain
  Donna Cottrell, Shaker Heights, OH (USA)
• Giovanna Cenami's Veil: A Neglected Detail
  Carla Tilghman, Kent State University, OH (USA)
• Each to His Own Place: Sorting French Fashion from Flemish in Early Sixteenth-Century Painting
  Elizabeth McMahon, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York (USA)
Session 160: Dress and Textiles II: Dress and Textiles in Documentary Sources
• Bad Habits: Clothing References in the Register of Bishop Eudes of Rouen
  Susan Carroll-Clark, Columbus, OH (USA)
• Uncovering Coverings: Clothing and Other Textiles in Late Medieval English Wills
  Kristen M. Burkholder, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (USA)
• Baubles, Bangles, and Bedys: Jewelry and Accessory References in Selected Sixteenth-Century English Wills and Inventories
  Danielle Nunn-Weinberg, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (USA)
Session 288: Dress and Textiles III: Knitting and Other Non-Woven Textiles
• Twined before Purls: Motifs and Technology in Knitted Silk Purses of the Fourteenth Century
  Chris Laning, Davis, CA (USA)
• The Iconography of Knitting Madonnas
  Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
• It Isn't Knitting: The Forgotten Technique of Nalbinding
  Anne Marie Decker, Snohomish, WA (USA)
Session 348: Dress and Textiles IV: Roundtable Discussion on Sources and Research Methods
• A roundtable discussion examining the approaches of various disciplines to dress and textile research.
  Panelists: Susan Carroll-Clark, Independent Scholar; Heather Rose Jones, Univ. of California-Berkeley; Miranda Howard Haddock, Western Michigan University; Robin Netherton, DISTAFF; Elizabeth Johnson, La Belle Compagnie; and Monica L. Wright, Washington University

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 8-11, 2002)

Session 704: Dressing for Effect
• Dress for Success: Beroul's Tristan and the Restoration of Status through Clothes
  Monica L. Wright, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (USA)
• Terrifying Toes: Subversion through Footwear in 12th-Century Northern Europe
  Patricia Reid, University of London (UK)
Session 804: Foreign Fashions?
• Tunics in Transition: Clothing from Egypt in the Early Arab Period, 7th-8th Centuries, Based on Material in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
  Frances Pritchard, University of Manchester (UK)
• Knitting Up Pilgrimage Routes
  Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
• Living at the End of the World is No Excuse for Not Looking Good: Greenland Garments
  M. A. Nordtorp-Madson, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (USA)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 3-6, 2001)

Session 456: Dress and Textiles I: Representing Royalty
• The Politics of Clothing: Early Sixteenth-Century Queenly Dress
  Elizabeth McMahon, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York (USA)
• Changing Clothes: What the Royals Are Wearing in Twelfth-Century French Romance
  Monica L. Wright, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (USA)
• Presenting Royalty: The Political Significance of Cloths of Honor in French and Flemish Art of the Turn of the Fifteenth Century
  Donna M. Cottrell, Shaker Heights, OH (USA)
Session 509: Dress and Textiles II: Medieval Manuals on Fabric Care and Decoration
• Getting the "Big Picture": The Wider Context of Instructional Manuals
  Susan Carroll-Clark, Columbus, OH (USA)
• Cloistered Arts: A Manual on Fabric Care and Cleaning from Fifteenth-Century Nurnberg
  Drea Leed, Springfield, OH (USA)
• Golden Bands: A Tablet-Weaving Pattern Book from Early Sixteenth-Century Nurnberg
  Nancy Spies, Jarrettsville, MD (USA)
Session 551: Dress and Textiles III: Using Archaeological Sources
• What's the "Madder" with This Picture? The Greenland Norse Garments and Some Difficulties in Relying on Preserved Artifacts
  M. A. (Shelly) Nordtorp-Madson, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (USA)
• The Greenland Gored Gown: A Comparison with Clothing Construction on the Continent
  Robin Netherton, St. Louis, MO (USA)
• Shoes from Greenland: A Comparison with Shoes and Shoemaking on the Continent
  Marc Carlson, University of Tulsa, OK (USA)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 4-7, 2000)

Session 80: Dress and Textiles I: Sources from Beyond the Grave
• (Ad)Dressing the Dead: Anglo-Saxon Textiles and Taxonomy
  Christina Lee, University of Manchester (UK)
• The Herjolfsnes "Shrouds" and the Burial Practices of the Greenland Norse
  Shelly Nordtorp-Madson, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (USA)
• Clothing References in Sixteenth-Century English Wills and Inventories
  Danielle Nunn-Weinberg, Scarborough, ON (CANADA)
Session 136: Dress and Textiles II: Making It
• Purse Styles and Construction
  Robert Charrette, La Belle Compagnie, Herndon, VA (USA)
• Parallel Evolution in Hat Styles
  Elizabeth Johnson, La Belle Compagnie, Herndon, VA (USA)
• Braies Styles and Construction
  Joann Socash, La Belle Compagnie, Herndon, VA (USA)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 6-9, 1999)

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)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 7-10, 1998)

Session 255: Textiles and Dress I: Physical Needs, Physical Comforts
• To Die; To Sleep: The Bed in the Grave in Anglo-Saxon England
  John Hines, University of Wales, Cardiff (UK)
• Cushioning Medieval Life
  Elizabeth Coatsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
• What the Men Saw: Physical Aspects of Women's Costume as Described in the Literature of England, 1250-1350
  Traci Austin Straatmann, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (USA)
Session 303: Textiles and Dress II: Physical Needs, Physical Comforts
• New Clothes for a Bog Man
  Lois Swales, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)
• Clothing and a Thirteenth Century Household: A Practical Approach
  Susan Carroll-Clark, University of Toronto (CANADA)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 8-11, 1997)

Session 338: Textiles and Dress: Decorative and Decorated Textiles
• How do we "Read" the Artistic Depictions of the Bliaut?
  Verna Rutz, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO (USA)
• Athelstan's Gift? The Durham Embroideries
  Elizabeth Coatsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
• Bands, Borders, and Belts
  Gale R. Owen-Crocker, University of Manchester (UK)
Session 384: Textiles and Dress: Knitting, Weaving, and Clothing
• Hoggers and Scoggers: Knitting in Elizabethan Life and Literature
  Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis IN (USA)
• Cottage Production of Cloth: The Practical Aspects
  Loretta A. Hadlock-Kudlo, Reston, VA (USA)
• The Late Gothic Fitted Gown: Finding the Foundation
  Robin Netherton, Annandale, VA (USA)