Christy Gordon Baty
Christy Gordon Baty
Needlework Historian
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Conference Presentations
“Not The Needle Itself But The Skill In Using It: An Examination Of Esther Inglis’s Unique Embroidery Style,” Esther Inglis Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, October 2024
"Who Wore What," West Coast Elizabethan Clothing Symposium, UC Berkeley, June 2024
Embroidered Book Bindings Workshop at the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, January 2024
"Queen Elizabeth's Books," South Central Renaissance Conference, UC Berkeley, April 2023
“An Embroidered Menagerie: Animals represented in print and needlework” presented at the University of Kent’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Festival, June, 2022
“Apropos Embellishment: Needlework Details on Different Socio-Economic Classes in 16th and 17th century England” Master Class at Costume On 4 Conference, May 2022
"She is Mine Own: Women’s Embroidered Devotional Books in Early Modern England" LSC Globe Conference, King's College London, February 2022
"From Pattern to Pate: An Examination of Early Modern Embroidered English Head-Coverings and their Sources" presented at the 135th Annual Meeting of the AHA, January 2022
"Prayer Books of Girls and Gallants: An examination of 16th and 17th century Embroidered Book Bindings" presented at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 2021.
“Animals Finely Wrought: An Exploration of Embroidered Beasts,” presented at the Medieval Dress and Textile Annual Conference, May 2021
“Elizabethan Embroidery: Gloriana’s Gifts and the Power of the Needle,” presented at the South-Central Renaissance Conference, March 2021
“Women’s Work Seen and Unseen: the Economic Influence of Needlework,” presented at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure's, University of Cambridge, January 2021
“Modern Convenience vs. Historically Accurate Couture: The Dilemma of Period Textiles at Heritage Sites” presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, November 2020
“A Woman’s Communion: Embroidered Devotionals in Early Modern England,” Lecture at Winter Conference for Ecclesiastical History Society, 2020
“Presence of the Needle” Lecture at the “Slice of Everyday Life” Conference at University of Cambridge, 2019
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