”Opening Our Closets: Trend & Textile History”


Saturday, April 1, 2023


Mumford, NY (March 21, 2023) – Genesee Region Village & Museum has announced the lineup of speakers in its Spring Lecture Sequence (Saturday, April 1, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.) on the subject matter of 19th-century trend and textile background. This working day-prolonged software characteristics four presenters speaking on unique subjects, culminating with keynote speaker Susan W. Greene, namesake and donor of the Susan Greene Costume Collection housed in the John L. Wehle Gallery at GCV&M. Tickets to the Spring Lecture Series will include entry to all 4 vogue and textile lectures as effectively as a continental breakfast, geared up boxed lunch, and guiding-the-scenes excursions of the Gallery vaults and Costume Shop. Tickets are out there now at https://www.gcv.org/event/opening-closets-trend-textile-history/.


Opening Chat: “Connecting Threads: Western New York Historic Fashion Patterning Coalition” with Brandon W. Brooks – Curator of the John L. Wehle Gallery


Fascination in historic vogue, period of time dramas, and stitching/tailoring has developed drastically in the past 5 several years. Curator Brandon Brooks hopes to harness this enthusiasm through the generation of a regional historic fashion pattern database. This lecture describes what this databases will appear like, how to hook up museums in this network, and how to raise accessibility to these collections with the top objective of linking the public with historic fashion and garment resources.


Second Presentation: “Programming the Potential: How a Loom Paved the Way for Fashionable Computing” with Ben Falter – Director of Instruction, Ontario State Historic Culture


In 1804, Joseph Marie Jacquard patented a system identified as the Jacquard Device. This machine was attached to looms and could be utilized to create complicated patterns a lot more simply in woven items many thanks to a chain of punch playing cards that manipulated the handle rods. Minimal could any person know at the time, the Jacquard Machine would at some point end result in today’s pcs. This speak will synthesize the do the job of students and historians with examples from the collections of the Ontario County Historical Society in order to current an participating window into an usually-forgotten textile unit whose results are nevertheless felt in our each and every working day.


3rd talk: “A Monstrous Magnificence of Gals: Manner as Weaponry in the 19th Century” with Chantal Filson – GCV&M Costume Shop Supervisor


Choose a whirlwind tour of self-protection in the 1800s, examining components and clothes employed to repel unwelcome consideration and implement own area. Weapons of mass consumption used by both culture girls and criminals alike modified notion, business, and law by means of martial arts, diamonds, danger, and far more.


Keynote: “Calico, Homespun, & the Strong Pioneer” with Susan W. Greene – Creator, Collector, Lecturer, Weaver, Historian


The keynote given by Susan W. Greene will present an exploration of the which means of the terms “calico” and “homespun,” and concentrate on the examples of the 3 Alfred, NY gals who worked as weavers in the mid-19th century, based mostly on main assets. To discover Susan W. Greene’s publications in advance (which spotlight collections housed at GCV&M), think about purchasing Wearable Prints 1760-1860 on Amazon or by means of the Kent Condition College Press.


Tickets on sale now


Tickets for GCV&M’s Spring Lecture Series ought to be obtained online in advance as area is confined. Common admission is $90, and admission for Museum Customers is $75. Tickets contain access to all lectures, a continental breakfast, prepared boxed lunch of decision, and at the rear of-the-scenes tours of the Gallery vaults and Costume Shop with GCV&M employees. Tickets are offered now at https://www.gcv.org/event/opening-closets-trend-textile-heritage/.


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Photograph: Don’t miss out on GCV&M’s Spring Lecture Sequence on Saturday, April 1 – showcasing Manner & Textile Background of the 19th century with 4 fascinating presenters.


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GCV&M is the premier residing historical past museum in New York Point out with the major assortment of historic buildings in the Northeast. The Museum, with its John L. Wehle Gallery, doing the job brewery, vintage foundation ball park, and Nature Middle, is situated in Mumford, NY, 20 miles southwest of Rochester and 45 miles east of Buffalo. Take a look at www.gcv.org for a lot more info.


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