Early Textile Study Group Conference

Colour

19 Nov - 20 Nov 2010

Wellcome Collection Conference Centre
London

From status statements to mourning dress, colours have played a crucial part in textiles through time and across cultures. Colours can be dramatically combined or worn separately. Specific colours can identify the owner, his or her allegiances, state of mind and state of purse.

This conference aims to explore the wide variety of symbolic, cultural and technical aspects of colours in textiles, from all geographical areas and all time periods up to 1600. Speakers include academics, museum curators and textile conservators and promise to offer two days of absorbing papers and lively discussions.

The Early Textiles Study Group (ETSG) came into being in 1981 after a small group of people working with or researching into archaeological textiles started to meet together on a semi-regular basis to discuss their work and problems, to share knowledge an