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Programme
10.00-10.15
Arrival and Registration
10.15-10.30
Welcome and Introduction (Patricia Allerston & Lynn Abrams)
10.30-11.45
Session 1
- Linda
Newington (Textile Conservation Centre, Winchester School of Art),
“Knitted together: a new pattern for the future".
- Helen
Taylor (Heriot Watt University), “Bernat Klein: An Eye for
Colour".
11.45-12.15
Coffee
12.15-1.15
Session 2
- Annie
Shaw (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Whole Garment
knitwear, new ways of making clothes’.
- Jennifer
Gordon (Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther), “Maritime
Influences on the Design of Traditional Knitwear: the Fisherman’s
Gansey”
1.15-2.15
LUNCH
2.15-3.45
Session 3
- Lynn
Abrams (Glasgow University), “Hand-Knitting as survival:
Shetland women, independence and consciousness in the 19th and 20th
centuries”
- Anne
Sinclair (Fair Isle), “The History of Textile production
in Fair Isle: its significance to the economy and culture of a small
island community”
- Christine
Arnold (Robert Gordon University), “An assessment of the
gender dynamic in Fair Isle (Shetland) Knitwear.”
3.45-4.10
Tea
4.10-4.45
Roundtable and Summing Up
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