*** Please note, this is a pre-recorded talk, followed by a Live Q&A session with Jenn Monahan***
Jenn Monahan – C&TA Geoffrey Squire Memorial Bursary(GSMB) award winner 2019 – shares her fascinating research project into the invisible and unsung women who laid the foundations of what would become Norfolk’s Worsted Textile Industry in the Early Medieval period.
Telling the story behind the project, Jenn touches on her motivations and the history of the Norfolk Horn, Norfolk’s indigenous rare breed sheep. Her talk will discuss the life and roles of women in early medieval Norfolk through their tools and textiles. And busts a few myths along the way …
**Jenn has kindly agreed that we can share a link of her recorded presentation with those who sign up via Eventbrite. The live Q&A session will not be recorded**
THIS EVENT IS PART OF NORFOLK MAKERS’ FESTIVAL 2024. 13 APRIL – 21 APRIL 2024 AT THE FORUM, NORWICH – AND ONLINE. SEE NORFOLK MAKERS’ FESTIVAL WEBSITE: norfolkmakersfestival.co.uk
Speaker:
Jenn Monahan is a Norfolk-based natural dyer, knitter, designer and producer of Norfolk Horn yarn. The Norfolk Horn is Norfolk’s indigenous rare breed sheep. In 2015 she established Fibreworkshop, a small craft business to provide a market for and to promote the use of British and specifically Norfolk wool.
Jenn has a passion for Norfolk’s textile history and the Norfolk Horns connection with it. She was awarded the C&TA’s Geoffrey Squire Memorial Bursary (GSMB) award in 2019 to research the lives of women spinners in Norfolk’s early Medieval Worsted Industry.
Working with wool from the Norfolk Horn, Jenn uses natural plant dyes and traditional techniques, to produce a yarn from an otherwise unvalued material. She uses this wool – and the beautiful palette of colours – in her design work.
When she isn’t doing that, Jenn also has a secret knitting life – knitting vintage costume pieces for the big and small screen, including The Darkest Hour, Little Women, BBC’s Small Axe and Life after Life.
www.fibreworkshop.co.uk
Details from The Lutterall Psalter, c.1320–1340 , British Library, Add MS 42130 (top) Woman spinning at the great wheel, f. 193r. (above) Woman spinning with a distaff, f166v.
The Costume & Textile Association (C&TA) host regular online events via zoom, in addition to in person events in Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Online Programme for Spring / Summer 2024
The Costume & Textile Association (C&TA) host regular online events via zoom, in addition to in person events in Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Tuesday 23 January Tartan with Jonathan Faiers, professor of Fashion Thinking at Winchester School of Art, author and co-curator of Tartan exhibition at V&A Dundee
Wednesday 21 February Dressing Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with Jane Pritchard, curator of Dance, Theatre and Performance at the V&A. 2024 celebrates the 150th birthday of Nicolas Roerich, the 100th anniversary of Leon Bakst and the 111th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring ballet
Tuesday 12 March Jane Austen’s Wardrobe with Dr Hilary Davidson, dress, textile and fashion historian, curator and author
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NORFOLK MAKERS’ FESTIVAL EVENT 13 – 21 April 2024, ONLINE & @ THE FORUM, NORWICH
Free Exhibition in The Gallery, The Forum, Norwich Daily 10 am – 4 pm. 13 – 21 April 2024
ONLINE EVENT Saturday 13 April 2 pm Agony & Ecstasy: History of Corsets with Joy Evitt, C&TA (Free, donations welcome)
ONLINE EVENT Sunday 14 April 2pm Spinning a Yarn: Women Spinners in Norfolk’s Medieval Worsted Industry with Jenn Monahan (pre-recorded talk followed by Live Q&A with Jenn)(Pay what you can)
**IN PERSON EVENT @ THE FORUM, NORWICH 12 noon Monday 15 April 35 Years of C&TA Support with Ruth Battersby, senior curator, Norfolk Museums Service (NMS) (Pay what you can)
ONLINE EVENT Tuesday 16 April 7 pm Double Weave: Modernist Designers Bourne & Allen with Dr Jane Hattrick, co-curator of exhibition at Ditchling Museum
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Tuesday 23 April 7 pm Print Pattern & Narrative with Kate Farley, associate professor in design at Norwich University of the Arts
Tuesday 21 May 7 pm The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe with Dr Kate Strasdin, author and senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Fashion and Textiles Institute, Falmouth University
Wednesday 5 June 7 pm Courtly Coral: Red Coral and Coral Motifs at the Chinese Imperial Court with Dr Pippa Lacey, C&TA
Tuesday 23 July 7 pm The Pastons: Clothes Maketh the Man (and Woman) with best selling author Anne O’Brien
August Summer Break
Tuesday 24 September 7 pm Fashion on the Silk Roads with Professor Susan Whitfield, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC)
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