Silk Unravelled: A transdisciplinary symposium  

22nd Nov 2017 

Venue: Room 102, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7H

Information:
Free entry – Booking required here: silkunravelled@gmail.com.

Silk Unravelled is a multidisciplinary event that explores exciting perspectives on the fascinating material that is silk: from insect to fibre, scientific innovation to theory, history to heritage, craftsmanship to industry, local to global production.

 

Keynote speakers
Helen Wang, ‘Silk as a Currency’
Curator of East Asian Money Coins and Banknotes of East Asia, British Museum

Dr. Brenda King, ‘Taming the Wild: Thomas Wardle’s Pioneering Research into the Wild Silks of India’
Textile Historian, Chair of the Textile Society

Screening of the documentary film Silk River
Q&A with the film director Steve Shaw

 

Silk Unravelled Programme and link