Silk Unravelled Symposium

Silk Unravelled is a multidisciplinary event that explores exciting perspectives on the fascinating material that is silk: from insect to fibre, scientific innovation to theory, history to heritage, craftsmanship to industry, local to global production.

Keynote speakers
Helen Wang, “Silk as a Currency”
Curator of East Asian Money Coins and banknotes of East Asia, British Museum

Brenda King, “Silk and Empire”
Textile Historian, Textile Society UK

Screening of the documentary film Silk River
Q&A with film director Steve Shaw

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Full programme:

9:30AM
Opening, registration and coffee

10-11AM
Keynote
Helen Wang, “Silk as a Currency”
Curator of East Asian Money Coins and banknotes of East Asia, British Museum

11-11:15AM Coffee break

11:15AM-1PM
Panel discussion Silk Fiction
Veronica Ranner (Designer and Lecturer, Royal College of Art) Polyphonic futurs
Elizabeth Atkinson (Writer, Royal College of Art) Derrida’s Silk Cocoon
Panelists tba

1-2PM Lunch break

2-3PM
Keynote
Brenda King, “Silk and Empire”
Textile Historian, Textile Society UK

3-3:15PM Coffee break

3:15-5PM
Panel discussion Silk: Global and Local 
Mark Nesbitt (Curator and Researcher at Kew Gardens) Silk collections from the British Empire
Magali An Berthon (Textile Historian and Documentarist, Royal College of Art) Silk production in contemporary Cambodia
Marta Velasco (Textile Designer, Royal College of Art) Pulau Banda collection
Lisa Gale (Visitor Experience Manager, Whitchurch Silkmill) Whitchurch Silk Mill: Preserving the Fabric

5-5:15PM Coffee break

5:15PM
Screening of the documentary film Silk River
Q&A with film director Steve Shaw

6PM Closing

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Information:
Free entry – Booking required here: silkunravelled@gmail.com

Silk Unravelled Symposium
10.00-18.00
Room 102, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street
London, WC1E 7H

Knitting History Conference, Saturday 6 November 2010

LOOPING THE LOOPS
Knitting History Conference, Saturday 6 November 2010
London College of Fashion,
20, John Princes Street, London, W1.

Speakers and Subjects already agreed:

Dr. Philip Sykas, Manchester Metropolitan University:
Silk Yarns for Knitting and their use in Britain.

Debbie Bamford
The natural dyeing of silk yarns.

Susan  North, Curator of Fashion 1550-1800, V & A Museum:
Knitting Backwards? Deciphering the Patterns of Historical Knitting

Dr. Carol Christiansen, Curator of Costume at Shetland Museums
details of the knitted garments found on the 17th century Gunnister man


There will also be a short AGM.