IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 709: DISTAFF, II: Textiles Crossing Borders
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashion (DISTAFF) |
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| Organiser: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elizabeth Coatsworth, now retired |
| Paper 709-a | The Crossover of Design Motifs in Art from Early Medieval England: Metalwork to Embroidery, Embroidery to Metalwork, or Wider Material Cultural Influences (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Social History |
| Paper 709-b | Silk Dresses and Buttons for Saintly Bones in Wooden Bodies: 14th-Century Fashion and Cologne's Virgin Martyrs (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Economics - Trade, Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 709-c | Weaving Civic Identity: Islamic Textiles' Influence on the Façades of San Michele in Foro and San Martino in Lucca (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | The first paper focuses on interrelationships between metalwork and embroidery designs. How did designs transfer medium? Was it one way, or more complex influence across societies and material culture? The second investigates painted garments on 14th-century wooden images of Virgin Martyrs, suggesting they wear contemporary, fashionable garments of textiles replicating Italian and imported eastern silks to communicate their heavenly status.The third argues that intarsia on the facades of San Michele in Foro and San Martino in the textile-production centre, Lucca, mimic figural and geometric textile motifs from the 13th-century Islamic world, which contemporary viewers would recognise as reflecting their civic identity. |