Appel à contribution : “Silks Stories: Women in the Early Modern Silk World”, RSA, date limite le 15 juillet 2025

Type : Paper Panel

Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : This panel explores the vital yet often overlooked roles of women in the early modern silk world. In Renaissance Italy and beyond, women participated in every stage of silk production: they cultivated mulberry trees, raised silkworms, spun thread, dyed textiles, wove patterned fabrics, and embroidered intricate garments. They also played key roles in domestic economies, artisanal innovation, and knowledge transmission. Despite their centrality, women’s contributions to the early modern silk industry remain underrepresented, as scholarship in silk production and trade has largely focused on male artisans and formal institutions over the labor and knowledge of women.

We invite papers from scholars working in art history, economic, social, and cultural history, as well as related fields, to explore these understudied silk narratives and to illuminate the diverse roles women held across the silk industries of early modern Europe. Contributions may draw on archival sources, visual materials, material reconstructions, and narrative historical approaches to examine how women’s labor, skill, creativity, and embodied knowledge shaped the material practices, economic structures, and cultural significance of silk production in the early modern period.

Please submit the following materials to Victoria Bartels (victoria.bartels@aalto.fi) by 15 July 2025:

• Title
• Abstract (200 word max)
• CV (2 page max)

Disciplines (Select up to 3) : Art and Architecture ; History ; Women and Gender

Organizers : Paula Hohti and Victoria Bartels

Contact email : victoria.bartels@aalto.fi

CFP Deadline : 15 July 2025

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