Fibres, Threads and Fabrics: Textiles and Fabrics as Material Culture. LCF, London. 10 October, 2020
This conference will explore the ways communities within the African Diaspora shape and understand the world through the medium of textiles.
The Costume Institute of the African Diaspora’s second dress conference aims to understand how textiles and fabric creation, design and use can determine traditions, customs elements of social engagement and speak to the materiality of cultures and communities within the African Diaspora.
Material culture is the use of objects and artefacts as signifiers of social engagement and everyday life. This conference looks at how fabrics and textiles have been utilised within global communities of African heritage to document their social histories.
We bring together academics and researchers from across the world who are working within the field of Material Culture, African Fashion, Film Studies and Textiles. The work presented here will look at the myriad of different factors which have affected the way people of African heritage have sought to develop and use textiles as a way to write their own stories.