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Cutting Edge Technology: Knitting In The Early Modern Era, Jane Malcolm-Davies Dr.
Cutting Edge Technology: Knitting In The Early Modern Era, Jane Malcolm-Davies Dr.
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
New scientific evidence of trade in raw materials and finished goods for the knitted textile trade is emerging from a study of more than 100 extant knitted caps from the 16th century. These long-overlooked archaeological data are being re-excavated from museum archives for analysis in innovative ways. The caps are recorded in European collections as having been shipwrecked, deliberately concealed, preserved in peat bogs, or discarded as beyond use. Many were unearthed during construction work in cities, during building renovations or discovered on the seabed in far-flung locations across Europe – as far north as Norway and as far south …
New Material World: Rethreading Technology, Concurrent Exhibitions, The Sheldon Museum Of Art
New Material World: Rethreading Technology, Concurrent Exhibitions, The Sheldon Museum Of Art
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
Sheldon Museum of Art
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New Material World: Rethreading Technology
October 8, 2010 - January 2, 2011
From manipulating old techniques in new ways to coupling new tools and digital
processes with traditional methods, this work explores what it means to be an
artist integrating such approaches in the 21st century.
Participating artists: Lyn Carter, Kyoung Ae Cho (1997 Lillian Elliott Awardee),
Sonya Clark (2000 LEA), Ishida Tomoko Hashimoto (1998 LEA), Kyoko Kumai,
Cat Mazza, Janice Lessman-Moss, Geraldine Ondrizek, Jessica Smith, and
Grethe Sørensen.