T’ai Smith\, Assi stant Professor\, Art History\, Visual Art & Theory\, UBC
This presen tation will consider how manufacturers in Europe and America codified texti le and clothing production through the use of diagrams: lace and embroidery patterns (first developed in the sixteenth century)\, draft notation syste ms for weaving (seventeenth and eighteenth century)\, and sewing patterns ( nineteenth century). Combining an examination of these diagrams with a Marx ian analysis\, I will show how these artifacts of material culture can help us understand different moments in the movement from proto-industrial to c onsumer capitalism.
This interdisciplinary seminar series on visual a nd material culture is for anyone with interest in this field across differ ent departments at UBC and beyond. It is an informal forum to share researc h and exchange ideas\, followed by conversations over a drink at the Ideas Wine Bar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Open to students \, staff\, faculty and community members in and around UBC.
This this term’s program: http://moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/seminar-series/
Con veners: Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura\, Curator\, Asia MOA\, Dr. Nuno Porto\, Associa te Director\, Research & Co-Curator\, Africa\, MOA and Dr. Anne Murphy\, As sociate Professor\, Department of Asian Studies at UBC.
If you have q uestions for speakers for the series\, please contact Fuyubi. Email: fuyubi @mail.ubc.ca
Image: Detail of plates from Margaret Abegg\, Apropo s Patterns: For Embroidery Lace and Woven Textiles (Riggisberg\, Switzerlan d: Abegg Stiftung\, 1978). Showing woodcut pattern from Vavassore\, Essempl ario di Lauori (Venice\, 1532)\; drawnwork or Fili Tirati\, Italian\, 16th century\; and embroidery\, Punto Croce and Punto Spina\, Italian\, 17th cen tury.
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