Pamela Clabburn Memorial Lecture by Dr Isabella Rosner, Curator of Textiles, Royal School of Needlework on extraordinary Norfolk stitchers.

IN-PERSON EVENT ONLY

Duke Street Riverside Lecture Theatre, Norwich University of the Arts

Location: 26 Duke St, Norwich NR3 3FF (situated alongside the River Wensum).

C&TA Pamela Clabburn Memorial Lecture: In Sickness and In Health : Norfolk Needlework Stories by Dr Isabella Rosner, Royal School of Needlework

Speaker: Dr Isabella Rosner, Curator of Textiles and Contextural Study Lecturer at the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) and host of the 'Sew What' podcast features some extraordinary historical Norfolk stitchers. She will focus on several Norfolk makers and their textiles, including embroidery artist and former fisherman, John Craske, from Sheringham; social reformer Elizabeth Fry, nee Gurney, from Norwich, who started a program for female convicts on board ships bound for Australia and New Zealand, Charlotte Waite of Winterton-on-Sea and other young sampler makers.

Isabella Rosner is an art historian who studies material culture from the seventeenth through nineteenth century. She specialises in the study of early modern women’s needlework, especially British examples, and schoolgirl samplers across all time periods. Isabella completed her PhD at King's College London, focusing on Quaker women's art (17th-century English needlework and beadwork and 18th-century Philadelphia wax and shellwork) before 1800.

Location: Duke Street Riverside Lecture Theatre, Norwich University of the Arts, 26 Duke St, Norwich NR3 3FF (situated alongside the River Wensum).

This event is sponsored by the Clabburn Family in memory of our C&TA Founder

Pamela Clabburn MBE (13 April 1914 – 2 July 2010) was an English author, conservationist, curator, needlewoman and textile expert. Pamela was assistant curator - and later curator - of Social History at Strangers' Hall in Norwich. Pamela retired from Strangers' Hall in 1974, and was later invited to set up the National Trust's textile conservation department at Blickling, Norfolk. Pamela authored several books about textiles, including Norwich shawls. She founded the Costume and Textile Association (C&TA) in 1989.

**PLEASE NOTE: In Person Event Only. This event is NOT being recorded

Images: Beach Scene: the original embroidery by John Craske at the Red House, Aldeburgh (detail) CC BY 4.0; Isabella Rosner; Basket of Fish on a Cliff by John Craske, Sheringham Museum; Lorina Bulwer embroidery (detail) Norfolk Museums Service.

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