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| 9 - 10 h | Registration (location 1) |
| Optional activities: | |
| 10 - 17.30 h | Pre Programme at the London Metropolitan University (LMU): |
| 9 - 19 h |
Seminar “Touch, Textiles, Technology: Collaboration across Europe” by the Constance Howard Centre at Goldsmiths College ( |
| 10 - 11.15 h | Visit to the V & A; presentation of objects connected with Spitalfields weaving and talk about the history of the Spitalfields industry ( more information) |
| 15.30 - 17.30 h | Guided tour of Hand & Lock, a hand embroidery producer (more information) |
| 9 - 17 h | Day visit to the Warner Textile Archive, Braintree/Essex (more information) |
| 16 - 18 h | Registration |
| 18 - 20 h | 'On the Fringe' Exhibition Private View & Conference opening at the LMU, Metropolitan Works (location 2) |
| 9 - 10 h |
Registration (location 3) |
| 9.30 h |
Welcome address by the host, London Metropolitan University (LMU), Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, Paula Ashbrooke & Dipti Bhaget, and by the European Textile Network (ETN), Beatrijs Sterk. |
| 10.45 h | Break |
| 11.15 h | Keynote speakers on the Conference theme: Marie O’Mahony and Sarah Braddock-Clarke |
| 12 h | The Woven Pixel, Bhakti Ziek/USA & Vibeke Vestby/N |
| 12.30 h | Digital Embroidery , Polly Kenny/UK |
| 13 - 14.30 h | Lunch |
| 14.30 - 17 h |
Conference theme continues: |
| 17.15 - 19 h | Annual General Meeting of TEXERE followed by dinner at a nearby restaurant |
| 17.30 h | ETN Network activities (programme details) location 4 (end of session at approx. 21 h) |
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Optional activities: |
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| 8 - 22 h | Day trip to the Knitting & Stitching Show in Birmingham (more information) |
| 14 - 18 h | Spitalfields Walking Tour: Remnants of the area’s silk history (more information) |
| 16 - 20 h | Invitation to Annie Sherburne's shop at Oxo Tower Wharf, networking event (more information) |
| 8.45 - 18 h |
Day trip to William Morris’ Red House at Bexleyheath and nearby Eltham Palace
Departure from Charing Cross Station at 9.15 a.m.
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| 8.30 - 18 h |
Day trip to Sevenoaks, Kent: Visit to the contemporary embroidery/textile art collection of Diana Springall and Knole House, a stately home
Departure from Victoria Station at 9.10 a.m.
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| 9 - 10.30 h | Information Desk (location 3) |
| 9 - 13 h |
Network activities: Lectures by ETN members, 10 minutes/10 digital images each |
| 13 - 14 h | Lunch |
| 14 - 17 h |
ETN General Assembly ( |
| 15 - 18 h |
Visit to the Horniman Museum with talk by Ann Hecht on textiles from the "Wrapping Japan" exhibition ( |
| 15 - 17 h |
Visit to the National Gallery with talk by dress historian Jacqui Ansell on the theme of dress, drapery and painted cloth in artworks ( |
| 19 h | Farewell Dinner: Sonargaon Restaurant, 32-38 Osborn Street London, E1 6TD (see area map) |
The London Metropolitan University will host a range of related workshops in Digital//Craft skills, including |
London Design Festival (General information!)
| 100% Design, the attractive London exhibition of interior design, including textile design by graduates and professionals (http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk) |
PARTICIPATION FEES
Basic fee for ETN members: Euro 125
Basic fee for East European (non-EU!) ETN members: Euro 63
Basic fee for non-members: Euro 250
The basic fee will cover participation in the conference, coffee breaks and light lunches on Saturday and Monday.
Participation for one-day-only at half of the above mentioned price is possible
Registration address: ETN Secretariat, P.O. Box 5944, D-30059 Hannover, Germany; tel: +49-511/817006; fax: /813108; e-mail: etn@etn-net.org
METHODS OF PAYMENT
For reasons of financial administration, the LMU will need to book the basic fee & cost of the farewell dinner in advance.
Payments should be made to the ETN Secretariat in Euros by credit card. Those living within the Euro zone may pay by bank transfer using IBAN and BIC numbers.
(Due to high banking charges we are unable to accept cheques.)
Cancellations received by 15 August 2007 will receive an 80 % refund of the basic fee and farewell dinner if applicable.
Cancellations received after 15 August 2007 will be subject to the full fee unless the participant is replaced by another person!
The ETN Secretariat is not a travel agency, thus minor deviations in prices, e.g. for bus, train or entry tickets, may occur and should be dealt with cooperatively on location.
ACCOMMODATION
It is not easy to find a reasonable hotel at an affordable price in London.
We have published
a list of such hotels and some budget hostels near the conference venue (or within easy reach) and publish it on the internet. In some cases we will pre-book a certain number of rooms at a preferential rate. We recommend booking hotel accommodation soon, as London offers many cultural events in September. The conference organisers will not handle bookings for accommodation!
(see Introduction)
Pre Programme at the London Metropolitan University (LMU)
Morning: Presentation of the research project, “On the Fringe”, linking textiles and digital technology, by lecturers of the LMU; project leader: Paula Ashbrooke; researchers: Tracy Hunt, Janette Harris, Gina Pierce, Kaye Newman, Pat Moloney, Dipti Bhagat and Tomoko Azumi. Brief presentations of various techniques, followed by an exclusive tour of the project exhibits (lunch included)
Afternoon: Workshops: 1) Digital printing, and 2) Laser cutting; afternoon break with refreshments; 3) Rapid prototyping, and 4) Digital embroidery; questions and answers
Participation is limited to 60 persons in total.
(Euro 39)
Seminar by the Constance Howard Centre
This one day seminar will explore how people involved in textile making are involved in practice based research teams across art, science and technology. The focus lies on collaboration between artists, museologists and technologists and their relationship to textiles, touch and technology. The seminar is divided into three sessions including a lunch break at the Centre.
The registration deadline is 1 August 2007. Fees vary from GBP 30 (for early student registration) to GBP 80 (for late non-members of either the Friends of the Constance Howard Centre or ETN)
Please register directly at the Centre : Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road, London SE14 6AF; tel: +44-20/77172210; fax: /79197673; e-mail: connitex@gold.ac.uk; http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/constance-howard/Not_the_ETN.html
Clare Browne, a staff member of the Victoria & Albert Museum, will give a presentation with discussion of objects from the V & A collection connected with Spitalfields weaving (silks, clothing made of them, designs, pattern books) and talk about the history and importance of Spitalfields silk to ETN Conference participants. Ms Browne is speaking, from 10.30 to 11.15 a.m. The meeting point will be the V & A main entrance (Cromwell Road) at 10.00 a.m.
(Euro 10)
This hand embroidery producer dates back to 1767, and is one of the very rare producers of gold lace and hand embroidery in the world. It is situated in the very heart of London, near Berwick Street and its many fabric shops. The tour is restricted to 45 minutes and 8 persons. There are two groups, one group starting at 3.30 and the second group at 4.30 p.m. Registered participants will meet on site: Hand & Lock, 86 Margaret Street, London W1W 8TE (http://www.hand-embroidery.co.uk).
Ms Rebecca Adijabe
will show participants around.
(no charge!)
Day trip to the Warner Textile Archive in Braintree, Essex
This archive presents the history of a textile company: in the early 19 th century, Samuel Courtauld moved his silk producing business from London’s Spitalfields area to Braintree, to a site that later became the Warner & Son factory, the foremost silk weaving company in Great Britain. When the company closed, the 60,000 fabric samples created between 1821 and 1996 illustrated the history of British textile design (http://www.braintree.gov.uk/Braintree/leisure/Warner+Archive).
The nearby Braintree District Museum documents the history of Samuel Courtauld and his work for the textile industry and in education.
TEXERE and ETN member Patricia Christy, an experienced textile tour guide, will guide the tour. It will include travel by coach and entry fees. Meeting point at 9 a.m.: Location no 1.
(Euro 40)
Day trip to the Knitting & Stitching Show in Birmingham
The organiser of this event, Creative Exhibitions Ltd., has assembled its strongest ever line-up of gallery stars and special features this year! The show is a mixture between high level exhibitions of textile art, a market place for specialised tools, materials, products, services & media, as well as lectures and courses.
This year two British groups will show art pieces by their members, the Sixty Two Group and the Lace Guild (Triennial Show). Eight designer-makers called Textile Connection will present re-using materials. Studio 21 will mark its 10th anniversary by pushing the boundaries of traditional expectations in textiles. Many solo exhibitions of British and foreign artists have been announced, including Tilleke Schwarz/NL, Primmy & Jessie Chorley/UK, Suhandan Özay/Turkey, Charlie Poulson/UK, Jeannette Appleton/UK, Val Campbell-Harding/UK, Isobel Hall/UK and Hiroshi Murase/Japan. Finally, an impressive show of over fifty Miao embroideries will illustrate the rich heritage of embroidered dress that is still worn by the Miao people in the Chinese Guizhou province today (http://www.twistedthread.com).
The coach will depart at 8.00 h from the backside of conference location no. 1 at Commercial Road 41 (Street name is Green Street!). Please arrive at 7.45 a.m.!
(Euro 34)
Pat Moloney, a lecturer at the London Metropolitan University and one of our hosts, will start her tour of Spitalfields, an area of textile historical interest, in the afternoon.
We would advise participants in the tour of London’s East End to spend the morning browsing Old Spitalfields Market, open from 9 to 17 h (http://www.visitspitalfields.com/osm.html), Petticoat Lane and Brick Lane Sunday Markets, where they will find an attractive range of interior objects, fashion, art, and food, including affordable lunches.
The Spitalfields walking tour will take place during the London Festival of Architecture, which will facilitate access to buildings of historic significance. The focus will be on the area’s silk industry, including a visit to Dennis Severs’ House, the reconstructed home of a silk weaver’s family. – The tour is restricted to 16 persons. (Should the tour be fully booked, individual museums may be visited as an alternative, such as the Museum of London, the Geffrye Museum, the Design Museum or the V & A Museum of Childhood.)
Meeting point: Conference location no. 1 at 2 p.m.
(Euro 10)
Visit to Annie Sherburne's shop
ETN member Annie Sherburne will invite textile artists to her
shop from 4 to 8 p.m.at
Oxo Tower Wharf, floor 1, Studio no. 10, Bargehouse Street, London SE1 9PH; tel:- +44-20/79221112.
She herself is a textile artist working with environmental friendly materials. She suggests artists to bring small booklets of images with their work to pass around to colleagues. Snacks and drinks will be provided and more textile artists/designers at Oxo Tower Wharf may join this networking event (e.g. the Finnish felt artist and designer Anne Kyrrö Quinn, floor 2, Studio 6).
(no charge!)
Day trip to William Morris’ Red House and Eltham Palace
The Red House at Bexleyheath was commissioned by William Morris in 1859, and designed by Philip Webb. It retains many of the original features and furniture designed by Morris and Webb. The National Trust acquired the house in 2003, and opened it to the public (http://www.rebs.demon.co.uk).
Eltham Palace is one of Englands largest royal palaces, and was originally bought by Edward II in 1305. In 1930 Stephen and Virginia Courtauld incorporated the Great Hall into their home, which is a show piece of French Art Deco. The Courtaulds left in 1944 to escape the bombing of South East London. The English Heritage Fund has replicated most of the decor, furniture and textiles (http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/elthampalace/visit/index.html).
The tour will be guided by TEXERE and ETN member Patricia Christy, an experienced textile tour guide. The charge for the trip includes train travel and the entry fees for both venues.
The meeting point is 8.45 a.m. at location no.1 or 9.15 a.m. from Charing Cross station where Patricia will wait at the main entrance!
(Euro 39)
Diana Springall, an ETN member, textile artist and author of textile books, began collecting embroidered textile art when she was Chair of the Embroiderers Guild in the 1980s. She now owns what is probably the only private collection of contemporary textile art in Great Britain. A visit to her home in Sevenoaks will take visitors to a restored farm with a typical hop kiln. Diana will offer lunch at her home. She will then accompany visitors to Knole House, a stately home located in Sevenoaks. Its rooms are laid out much the same as they were in the 18 th century; there are textile collections to be seen.
This more intimate group, participants will travel by train. The meeting point is at 8.30 location no. 1 or 9.10 a.m. at the train in Victoria Station
(no charge, participants will pay for the train and the entry fee themselves)
Ann Hecht, author of several well-known textile publications, has been researching Japanese textiles for the last five years. She is going to give a presentation at the exhibition "Wrapping Japan: textiles and costumes". This exhibition is the result of research done at the Horniman Museum at the wide variety of material held in store; length of cloth, obi, futon cover, wrapping, cloths, parasols, slippers, and the costume of ordinary people.
The Horniman Museum, South London, holds 350,000 objects and related items within the three main categories of world culture (ethnography), natural history, and music. Ann Hecht will meet the group in the new reception area at 3 p.m. and talk about the exhibits in the Balcony Gallery.
Travel costs are to be paid individually (5,40 GBP). A student will accompany the group: Meeting point 2 p.m. at the place where the lunch is taken. The price of this visit is 7 GBP to be paid at the Conference registration on Saturday or Monday morning!
Join dress historian and gallery lecturer Jacqui Ansell in a tour of the National Gallery to examine selected artworks and explore the theme of dress and painted cloth (and the role of textiles in society in general, and high art in particular) among other things two new works by Yinka Shonibare, known for his witty and complex artworks which feature his trade mark 'African' fabrics will be discussed in situ.
The National Gallery has no textile collection itself. It is located at Trafalgar Square at the centre of London. The meeting point with Jacqui Ansell is 3 p.m. at Sainsbury wing info desk. A student will accompany the group, meeting place 2.15 p.m. at the place where the lunch is taken. The price of this visit is 7 GBP to be paid at the Conference registration on Saturday or Monday morning! ETN Network Activities
Ten minutes speeches with max. ten digital images each
| Student 'Sub Club' of the LMU, 2 Goulston St., London E1 7TP | |
| 17.30 | Lectures by ETN members and guests |
| 19 h | Informal encounters with snacks (21 h end of session) |
| Monday 17 September:
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| London Metropolitan University, 16 Goulston St. Lecture Theatre | |
| 9 h | Lectures by ETN members and guests |
| 9.10 h | 1) 25 years of the Textile Society, by Freda Chapman/UK |
| 11 h | break |
| 11.30 | 9) The South West Textiles Group, by Bailey Curtis/UK |
| 13 h | End of session |
ATTENTION
The definite list of speakers (see above) is now valid and closed!
Seventh election meeting on Monday, 17th September, 14 – 17 h
London Metropolitan University, Student "SubClub", 2 Goulston St., London E17TP
ETN members are asked for the seventh time to define their leading body, the Administrative Council (AC) anew. Currently the AC is made up of Lala de Dios/E, President; Beatrijs Sterk/D, Secretary General; Visbeke Vestby/N, Treasurer.
Open for election are the posts of President, Secretary General and Treasurer; further Board members can be elected up to a maximum of ten persons.
Each ETN member that has paid its annual contribution 2007 has the right to vote and can be a candidate for the AC.
AGENDA
| 14 h | Subjects addressed by members |
| 14.30 h | Reports |
| 16.30 h | Decisions/elections |
| 17 h | End of the General Assembly |
For details of the programme please contact the ETN Secretariat. |
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Post Conference Programme: Workshops on Digital Craft
Tuesday 18 – Friday 21 September 2007
London Metropolitan University (LMU)/Metropolitan Works, 41-71 Commercial Road, London E1 1LA
Digital Print Workshop (some places left!) Tuesday 18 – Wednesday 19 September
Course Tutors: Gina Pierce/LMU & Sally Hudson/Metropolitan Works
A comprehensive 2-day workshop provides a hands on experience of the digital print process. Our experienced tutors are able to guide you through manipulating images in 'Photoshop' software and outputting for a Mimaki Digital Printer. Teaching strategies are a mixture of demonstrations, presentations and discussions, along with exercises and experimentation with the helpf and support of tutors. – Delegates will produce their own outcome on paper and material.
A delegate pack for each participant will include course instruction, an exercise tutorial, software and hardware specifications, contact numbers, material samples, a print credit for an A4 laser print and Metropolitan Works bureau details.
Prerequisites: All delegates need to be computer literate and should have some experience with software such as Adobe Photoshop.
Requirements: Each delegate should bring either a sample of their own textile (for example a piece of embroidery), or a drawing or a photograph of a piece of their work, and a saving device of at least 500 mgb to transfer and save files.
Laser Cutting Workshop (full) Thursday 20 – Friday 21 September
Course Tutors: Janette Harris & Paula Ashbrooke
Our comprehensive 2-day workshop provides a hand's on experience of drawing and outputting for a Universal V-460 laser. Teaching strategies are a mixture of demonstrations, presentations and discussions, along with exercises and experimentation with the help and support of tutors. Each delegate will manipulate software to create the laser interface through set exercises and with their own images to produce their own outcome on a variety of materials provided.
A delegate pack for each participant will include course instruction, software and hardware specifications, contact numbers, material samples and Metropolitan Works bureau details.
Prerequisites: All delegates need to be computer literate and have some experience with software such as Adobe Photoshop.
Requirements: Delegates should bring either a drawing/a photograph of a piece of their work, or a Photoshop reference to a print, and a saving device of at least 500 mgb to transfer and save files.
Course costs: £ 100/£ 50 (12 participants, max. 2 concessions)
Digital Weaving Workshop (full) Tuesday 18 – Friday 21 September
Course Tutors: Bhakti Ziek & Vibeke Vestby
International artists, Bhakti Ziek (co-author of "The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop) and Vibeke Vestby (inventor of the Thread Controller Loom) will present a workshop on digital weaving. A ready warped TC-1 will be available throughout the workshop, thanks to sponsoring from Tronrud Engineering AS. Delegates will learn the full process of taking original designs (drawn, digital capture or created from scratch in Photoshop), manipulating them in Photoshop, translating them into a loom-ready file, and weaving them on a TC-1 Loom. Basic knowledge of Photoshop is helpful, but this workshop is open to delegates at all levels of weaving knowledge.
A delegate pack for each participant will include an introduction to the Software Adobe Photoshop, workshop details, exercise tutorial, hardware and software contact numbers, image samples, printing credit for one A4 colour laser print.
Prerequisites: All delegates need to be computer literate and have some experience with software such as Adobe Photoshop.
Requirements: Delegates should bring digital images on CD or jump drives, drawings, photographs of imagery they would like to translate to weave, or material to scan, and a saving device of at least 500 mgb to transfer and save files.
Digital Embroidery Workshop (some places left!)
Course costs: £ 100/£ 50 (12 participants, max. 2 concessions)
Contact for post-conference courses:
Maliha Shakoor, e-mail: m.shakoor@londonmet.ac.uk
Paula Ashbrooke, e-mail: p.ashbrooke@londonmet.ac.uk
Further information is available from the website of the organiser, the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design at London Metropolitan University, which coordinates these events separately, independent of the ETN Conference (www.londonmet.ac.uk/jcamd/research/groups/design/conferences.cfm).
Sarah Braddock-Clarke/UK is an independent textile and technology consultant, curator, writer and lecturer. Her latest publication is “Techno Textiles – revolutionary fabrics for fashion and design”, co-authored by Marie O’Mahoney. back to the programme
Marie O’Mahony/UK is a freelance lecturer, curator and writer specialising in textiles and their applications in fashion, design and the arts. Together with Sarah Braddock-Clarke she curated the travelling exhibition, “techno.textiles 2010 - Textiles and New Technology” held in 1994.
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Bhakti Ziek/USA , a former college professor of textile design, is well known as a weaver-artist, lecturer, workshop instructor and author. Among other publications, she is the co-author of “The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms using Photoshop”, together with Alice Schlein.
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Vibeke Vestby/N is the inventor of a new jacquard weaving system for designers, the TC1. This loom is produced by her company, Digital Weaving Norway, the sponsor of many jacquard workshops and exhibitions. back to the programme
Polly Kenny/UK is a senior lecturer in embroidery at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London; she seeks to maintain the heritage of embroidery skills and contacts with the industrial world of embroidery for fashion. Her own work is produced on a single-head digital embroidery machine.
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Janne Kyttänen/FIN is a pioneer of design and research specialising in design for rapid manufacturing by means of laser sintering. He was the first designer to focus on laser-sintered textiles. His Dutch company, Freedom of Creation (FOC), has produced the V-bag, a shoulder bag for the Dutch Textile Museum made of laser-sintered polyamide. back to the programme
Larry H. Preusser/D is a textile engineer who develops software for the clothing industry. His “vidya” project for the German company assyst/Bullmer bridges the gap between 2D pattern and 3D prototype modelling, offering realistic 3D visualisation especially in the drape of the fabric when the body model is in motion. back to the programme
Philip Delamore/UK works as a designer and consultant. He is a Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion and a member of several institutions, including the Textile Futures Research Group, which is interested in inkjet printing, rapid prototyping, sustainable and intelligent textiles. back to the programme
Janette Matthews/UK uses laser techniques and hand manipulation in her practice to create three-dimensional textiles. She is currently involved in PhD research at Loughborough University into processes to create design-led 3D textiles from materials with a 2D origin. back to the programme
Rachel Wingfield/UK works in the field of responsive textiles and digital media, in cooperation with artist Mathias Gmachl. Together they have manufactured reactive surfaces for different environments, one of their aims being to mediate between craft, technology and nature.
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