Historic Hope Plantation
E-News Update
March 2006
10th Annual Ives Lectures
Saturday,
April 8
Spinning Wheel, SE
Virginia, 1830s
Domestic textiles
have long connected women across time, place, and cultures. Almost
all women in 18th- and 19th-century North Carolina participated in
some aspect of textile production. But making and using textiles
also separated women along race and class lines.
This year we
are proud to have two renowned speakers to help us better understand
different traditions of textiles. Kathleen Staples,
textile scholar, who will talk about "Colonial and Antebellum
Girlhood Embroidery in North Carolina." Colleen
Kriger, professor of history at UNC Greensboro, discussing
"West African Textiles, Indigo, and Women's Cultural Identity in the
African Diaspora."
The afternoon session will include
special tours of Hope's textile collections and an examination of
textile items by Gregory Tyler and Janine LeBlanc, specialists from
the N.C. State University Gallery of Art & Design. If you're
interested in bringing in an item to be examined, you must sign up
in advance.
The program is free and open to the
public. Box lunches will be available for purchase at Hope
for $10. There is an additional small cost if you want to have a
textile item evaluated.
You can reserve a lunch or sign up to
have something examined by pre-registering for the program. Click
here for more information or to register for the
program.
This
program is sponsored in part by the North Carolina
Humanities Council.
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