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Grants Recently Awarded

THE FOLLOWING IS AN ILLUSTRATIVE LIST OF SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATIONS SINCE 2006.

(Name, location, nature of research, amount received)

2009

Over £1,000

Carla Cesare, Northumbria University

Needlework and Femininity in Inter-War Britain (PHD bursary)

 

Anna Kadzik Bartosewka, University College, Dublin

Egyptian Archaeological Garments (PhD bursary)

 

Robynne Miles, University of Glasgow

Victorian Artistic dress and identity (renewal award PhD bursary)

 

Amanda Stinchecum, Brooklyn, New York

Research on textile museum collections in Okinawa

 

Valerie Wright, University of Dundee

Jute and Dundee (Themed Workshop Grant)

 

Between £500 and £1000

 

Elizabeth Cumming, Edinburgh

History of the Dovecot Studios

 

Danish National Research Foundation

Workshop on Textile production in the Ancient Near East

 

David Higgins, University of York, UK

Research on Harris Tweed branding

 

Katrina Honeyman, University of Leeds, UK

Child labour and apprenticeship in 19th century British textile industries

 

Michele Walker, Brighton, UK

Funding for online publication and touring exhibition

 

Up to £500

 

Regina Blaszczyk, Philadelphia

Research on ‘Transatlantic textile connections: from Colour Standards to synthetic fibres’

 

Macushla Boudis, Co. Kildare Ireland

Research on and photography of unpublished 18th century French embroidery designs

 

Emily Brennan, London

Research into Jamaican Lace-Bark

 

Kimberley Chrisman-Campbell, Pasadena, California

Illustrations for Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI

 

Vicky Coltman, Edinburgh University

Publication grant for illustrations of eighteenth century Scots in London

 

Gillian Crosby, University of Sussex, UK

Research trip to Paris to research Toiles de Jouy calicos 1686-1759

 

Christensen Ericsson, University of Southampton

Research on Victorian floral embroidery designs

 

Caroline Evans, St Martins College, London

Towards expenses incurred in presenting paper in Milan on Haute Couture

 

Chinar Farooqui, Coventry

Research into Lac Dyeing in Gujarat

 

Michael Hann, University of Leeds, UK

Cataloguing photographic plates relating to textile manufacture and design

 

Lucy Norris, University College London

Towards expenses incurred in presenting paper at the Political Economy of Textiles Conference, California

 

Sarah Owens, Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton

MA grant for research on non destructive investigative techniques for native American textiles

 

Elizabeth Palacios, Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton

MA grant for research on archaeological objects in Kew botany collection

 

Alexis Romano, Bard Graduate Centre, New York

Expenses for attendance and paper at Global Conference on Fashion, University of Oxford

 

Clare Rose, London

US Research trip and to present paper at Global Quilt conference

 

Emma Ronald

Towards research trip to Delhi to study block printed and resist dyed textiles in rural Rajastan

 

Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics

Publication grant for images for How India Changed the World

 

Madhura Waiker, Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton

MA grant for research trip to Mumbai to study Patola Saris

 

Clive Warwick, London College of Fashion

MA grant for research on London branch of Elsa Schiaparelli

 

2008

 

Over £1,000

 

Robynne Miles, Glasgow

Victorian Artistic Dress and Social Identity (PhD Bursary)

 

Linda Newington, Winchester, UK

Support for conference on History of Knitting 'In the Loop' (Themed Workshop)

 

Emma Richardson, Hampshire, UK

Pest Control in Nylon Textiles (PhD Bursary)

 

 

Between £500 and £1000

 

Chanel Clarke, Aukland, New Zealand

Attend and give paper on Maori textiles at CHODA conference

 

Hero Grange-Taylor, London, UK

Costs of plenary speaker at Early Textiles Study Group conference

 

Sarah Grant, London, UK

Research and publication on French printed textiles

 

Susan Marks, UK

Research on quilt history and conference presentation

 

Ben Marsh, Stirling, UK

European silk in the Atlantic world, 1500-1800

 

Fianti Noor, London, UK

Research on economic responses amongst European textile firms

 

Sarah Norris, Cheshire, UK

Fashion and Social Dance in Interwar Britain (PhD Bursary)

 

Dorothy Osler, Northumberland UK

Research on quilt history and conference presentation

 

Helen Persson (and group), London, UK

Provide session at Textile Society of America symposium and associated work

 

Elisha P. Renne, Michigan USA

Research in Nigerian Veils

 

Camilla Roman, Brussels, Belgium

Research on Indian handloom clusters

 

Kristen Smith, USA

Create database and analyse Coptic textiles

 

Peter Solar, Brussels, Belgium

Cotton spinning in Lancashire 1800-1825

 

John Stobart, Northampton University

Workshop grant: Selling Textiles in the long Eighteenth Century

 

Awhina Tamarapa, Wellington, New Zealand

Attend and give paper on Maori textiles at CHODA conference

 

Lesley Twomey, Northumbria, UK

Shoes in Valencia

 

Michele Walker. Brighton, UK

Japanese Shashiko Textiles

 

 

Up to £500

 

Nahum Ben-Yahuda, Qedumim, Isreal

Present paper at DISTAFF conference, Leeds

 

Kimberley Chrisman Campbell, Pasadena, California, USA

Publication grant for Fashion victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI

 

Sarah Gillies, Bradford, UK

Analysis of staining on 7th century Coptic tunic

 

Judith Hubbard, Winchester, UK

Present paper at 'In the Loop' Knitting History Conference

 

Alice Kettle et al., Winchester, UK

Grant for research for book on embroidery

 

Luba Nurse, Basingstoke, UK

Research on Maori cloak

 

Swapnesh Masrani, St Andrews, UK

Dundee jute industry 1945-1960s

 

Ingrid Murnane, Andover, UK

Present paper at 'In the Loop' Knitting History Conference

 

Katarina Oikerman, Israel

German Torah Bindings

 

Victoria Rovine, Florida, USA

Research on South African Dress and Textiles

 

Zoe Viney, Southampton, UK

Vestments at St Michael's Abbey

 

2007

 

Over £1,000

 

Lynn Abrams, Glasgow, UK

To support workshop on history of knitted textiles in Scotland

 

Michael Bath, Glasgow, UK

Illustration costs for book on needlework of Mary Queen of Scots

 

Maxine Berg and Giorgio Riello, Warwick, UK

To support workshop in the global spread of Indian textiles

 

Massimiliano Carocci, London, UK

Use of 'Spanish Moss' in textiles among native Indians

 

Jane Malcolm Davies, Goldoming, UK

Representations of dress in sixteenth century Church effigies

 

Joanna Hashagen, Durham, UK

To support International Lace Conference

 

Katrina Honeyman and Clare Rose, Leeds, UK

To support workshop in researching the garment industry: sources and approaches

 

Cory Wilmott, Illinois, USA

Dress of the Great Lakes Algonquian people in British Museum

 

Katherine Wilson, Glasgow, UK

To support workshop on tapestry research

 

 

Up to £1000

 

Mina Ishizu

Cardiff, UK

Early nineteenth century business practices in wool trade

£545

 

Alexandra MacCulloch

Bucks, UK

To support two speakers at Annual Courtauld History of Dress Association conference

£300

 

Artemis Yagou, Athens, Greece

To support research on Greek School Uniforms

 

Helen Wang, London, UK

To support workshop on Textiles as Money on the Silk Road