Hanging by a Thread. PAST EVENT

Love clothes and textiles? Register now for the 2010 New Zealand Costume and Textile Association Symposium, this year dealing to the the perilous theme of Hanging by a Thread: Tales of Disaster and Survival. Guest speakers include journalist and social commentator Rosemary McLeod, artist Andrea du Chatenier and writer/curator, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins on "A Nice Gay Jersey: Masculinity and the Knitting Pattern"!

Keynote presentations are by Dr Patricia Wallace, Associate Researcher, Macmillian Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterburyon "Maori Weaving: ‘Hanging by a Thread?"; and  Jane Wild & Hannah Barret, Textile Conservators, National Gallery of Australia on the restoration of  the Ballet Russes collection.

Click here for the PDF (200KB) of the Registration form.

Find out more about the programme (PDF 174KB) and in our Information for delegates(PDF 256KB).