Inventories of textiles

Inventories of Textiles – Textiles in Inventories

Inventories of Textiles and Textiles in Inventories in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period

MAK (Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien) and WISO (Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna) invites to take part in a workshop on Inventories of textiles and textiles in inventories in March 2014.

The workshop is a joint initiative of MAK (Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien) and WISO (Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna). Guests are most welcome. All presentations will be given in English

PROGRAMME

March 27 (Middle Ages) CHAIR: Thomas Ertl

  • 14.00: Opening Remarks
  • 14.15: Christiane M. Elster, Inventories and Textiles of the Papal Treasury around 1300. Concepts of Papal Representation in written and material media
  • 15.00: Sarah-Grace Heller, Revisiting the Inventories of Artois: Mahaut and the Line between Treasure and Fashion
  •  16.15: Sharon Farmer, Finding Parisian Silk in Aristocratic and Royal Accounts
  • 17:00: Lisa Monnas, Reading English Royal Inventories: the Inventory of Henry V (1423)

March 28 Morning (Early Modern Period I) CHAIR: Barbara Karl

  • 9.30: Jessica Hallett, All His Worldly Possession, Textiles in the Inventory of the 5th Duke of Braganza, 1563
  •  10.15: Paula Hohti, European influences on Scandinavian noble dress: Textiles and clothing in the surviving inventories in Finland, 1550-1600
  •  11.00 Break
  •  11.30 Annemarie Stauffer, A list of Garments for Charles the Bolds entourage sent to Tommaso Portinari in Bruges in 1473
  •  12.15 Richard Stapleford, The Fabric of Life in the 1492 Inventory of the Estate of Lorenzo de’ Medici

March 28 Afternoon (Early Modern Period II) CHAIR: Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset

  • 14.00: Chiara Buss, Documentation of the Genoese Textileproduction– A Special Patternbook
  •  14.45: Burkhard Pöttler, Clothes and Cloths in Styrian Probate Inventories of the Late 17th and 18th Centuries
  •  16.15: Hedda Reindl-Kiel, The Empire of Fabrics – The Range of Fabrics in Internal Ottoman Gift Traffic and Textiles as Ottoman Diplomatic Gifts (16th-18th Centuries)
  • 17.00: Kim Siebenhüner & Gabi Schopf & John Jordan, Cottons and Indiennes in Early Modern Swiss Inventories
  • 17:45 Concluding Discussion

Inventories of Textiles – Textiles in Inventories
Wien, MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vortragssaal, Weiskirchnerstraße 3, A-1010 Wien
27.03.2014-28.03.2014,

CONTACT:

Prof. Thomas Ertl
Department of Economic and Social History
University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
thomas.ertl@univie.ac.at

Dr. Barbara Karl
Curator of Textiles and Carpets
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst
Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien
barbara.karl@mak.at

 

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