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In this series of five talks, conservators, curators and book artists to explore where textiles can be found in library collections, their conservation needs, and what they can reveal about historic and contemporary craft.
This series is generously supported by T A Barron.
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 6 | Talk 6: Tying up loose threads: the Textiles in Libraries project so far | Join the Bodleian Conservation and Collection Care team to find out more about what the Textiles in Libraries project has involved so far. | Alice Evans, Nicole Gilroy, Henrike Lähnemann, Katica Laza | 19 Jul 2022 | |
| 5 | Talk 5: Textiles and text: A collaborative approach to conserving textile-covered manuscripts | Conservators Jane Eagan and Maria Hayward describe their work treating seven manuscripts re-covered in velvet for Henry VIII, part of a small corpus of royal books still in their textile bindings in the Queens College Library | Jane Eagan, Maria Hayworth, Alice Evans | 05 Apr 2022 | |
| 4 | Talk 4: Textiles from East to West: case studies from the Leiden collections | Building on earlier talks in the series that explored the uses of textiles in library collections, this talk focuses on examples of textiles in manuscript bindings in the Oriental collections of Leiden University Library. | Karin Scheper, Alice Evans | 24 Jan 2022 | |
| 3 | Talk 3: Stitches, leaves and smelly old books: in conversation with textile artist Alice Fox | Textile based artwork is well aligned with stitched or folded book structures. Giving book-related examples from her practice, artist Alice Fox describes how an experimental approach to materials can lead to a variety of creative outcomes. | Alice Fox, Alice Evans, Andrew Honey | 09 Dec 2021 | |
| 2 | Talk 2: Beyond the velvet cover: textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding | Georgios Boudalis explores the subject of textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding, sharing techniques little known not only in the context of Byzantine bookbinding but also more generally in the context of Byzantine material culture. | Georgios Boudalis, Alice Evans | 06 Dec 2021 | |
| 1 | Talk 1: Textiles in Libraries: glimpses from the Bodleian | The first talk in the Textiles in Libraries: Context and Conservation series brings together three colleagues from across the Bodleian Library to explore the wide variety and sometimes surprising uses of textiles found in our collections. | Jo Maddocks, Andrew Honey, Martin Kauffmann, Alice Evans | 11 Nov 2021 |