A UNIVERSE OF PATTERNS
Pattern Books in the Industrial Context of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Musterbücher im industriellen Kontext des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Organised by
HSLuzern
Textilmuseum St. Gallen
Venue:
Textilmuseum St. Gallen, Vadianstr 2, CH 9000 St. Gallen
Friday, 9.3. 2018
9:30 Welcome
Chair: Alexis Schwarzenbach (Luzern)
10:00 Philip Sykas (Manchester) Making sense of calico printers' pattern books from the Manchester region
10:55 Marie Schumann & Claudia Schmid (Luzern) Presentation Silk Memory Project
11:05 COFFEE BREAK
11:35 Karl B. Murr (Augsburg) „Coming to terms with patterns“ – On the role of communication in an early modern calico factory in Southern Germany
12:10 Mary Schoeser (London) London silk weavers’ sample books and their evidence of technical innovations 1807-1828
12:45 LUNCH
Chair: Birgitt Borkopp-Restle (Bern)
14:00 Helen Elands The collection of sample books of the Haarlemsche Katoen Maatschappij – HKM (Haarlem Cotton Company) in the archives of Vlisco in Helmond (NL).
14:35 Claire Berthommier (Lyon) The Émile Schulz Collection at the Musée des Tissus Lyon
15:10 Francina Chiara (Como) Variety and complexity of the sample-books in the textile industry and museums of the Como area: some significant cases in a critical approach
15:40 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 Anne Wanner (St. Gallen) Druckmuster in den Musterbänden von Adolf Jenny-Trümpy
16:50 Richard Schilling (Reutlingen) and Hans Bjarne Thomsen (Zurich) TBA
Conference Dinner – for Speakers
Saturday, 10.3. 2018
Chair: Barbara Karl (St. Gallen)
10:00 Regina Lee Blaszczyk (Leeds) “P” Is for Pattern Book, “S” Is for Style Service:
The ABCs of Business-to-Business Information Sharing in the Fashion System
10:55 COFFEE BREAK
11:35 Therese Schaltenbrand & Madeleine Girard (Basel) Die Musterbücher der Seidenbandfabrik Seiler aus Basel/Gelterkinden (CH)
12:10 Denise Ruisinger (Zürich/Luzern) Between filing cabinet and design library. Pattern book practice in the Zurich silk industry 1880 – 1914
12:45 LUNCH
14:00 Andrea Franzen & Anna Jurt (Zürich) Musterbücher der Seidenfirma Stünzi & Söhne
14:35 Daniela degl’Innocenti (Prato) Prato Production for the Army during the early 20th century
15:10 Dorothee Haffner (Berlin) The Poser Collection: a wide range of industrial produced textiles (1880-1940)
Permanent Presence: Silk Memory Project (HS Luzern