VOLUME 1
• HISTORY/CURATION
• Introduction: Patch One
• Catherine Harper
1. Miriam Shapiro and “Fem mage”: Reflections on the Conflict between Decoration and Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art Horma Braude
2. Outside In: Making Sense of the Deliberate Concealment of Garments within Buildings
Dinah Eastop
3. The Fold: Baroque and Postmodern Draperies Gen Doy
4. Land of Linen
Elizabeth Way land Barber
5. The Ideal World of Vermeer’s Little Lacemaker
Peter Dormer
6. Shifting Currency: The Culture and Economy of the Second Hand Trade in England, c. 1600-1850
Beverly Lemire
7. Re-threading: Notes towards a History of Sewing Thread in Britain
Philip A. Sykas
8. Spun Virtue, the Lacework of Folly, and the World Wound
Upside-Down: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Depictions of
Female Handwork
Linda Stone-Ferris
9. The Interpretation of Surface: Boundaries, Systems and Their
Transgression in Clothing and Domestic Textiles, c. 1880-1939
Victoria Kelley
10. Untouchable: Creating Desire and Knowledge in Museum
Costume and Textile Exhibitions
Alexandra Palmer
11. A Tapestry of Riddling Links: Universal Contiguity in
A.S. Byatt’s “Arachne”
Maria Jesus Martinez Alfaro
12. Penelope and the Unravelling of History
Ruth Scheuing
13. The Devil and His Striped Clothes (13th-16th Centuries)
Michel Pastoureau (Translated by Jody Gladding)
14. Value-added Stuffs and Shifts in Meaning: An Overview
and Case Study of Medieval Textile Paradigms
Desiree G. Koslin
15. Made in Patriarchy. Toward a Feminist Analysis of
Women and Design
Cheryl Buckley
16. Annie Garnett: The Arts and Crafts Mnvp^«. , , ~
of Textile Manufacture and the Business
Ennie Brunton
17. Mothers and Babies
John Styles
18. Patterns of Respectability: Publishing, Home Sewing and the
Dynamics of Class and Gender 1870-1914
Christopher Breward
19. Stitching a Life in “Pen of Steele and ‘till, ; Elizabeth Parker’s
Cira 1830 Sampler
Maureen Daly Goggin
circa 1830 Sampler
20. Artefact-based Approaches: Display and Interpretation
Lou Taylor
21, Collecting the Contemporary: «LOveW;..
And Science Will Decide How It Is Re „ Decide What Is Kept
Sue Richard
22. The Cod-piece - A Renaissance Fashion between Sign and Artefact Thomas Lilttenberg
23. The Skin and White Linen
Georges Vigarello
24. Rumpelstiltskin’s Bargain: Folklore and the Merchant Capitalist Intensification of Linen Manufacture in Early Modern Europe Jane Schneider