Christy Gordon Baty
Christy Gordon Baty
Needlework Historian
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Conference Presentations
2024
“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
2023-2024
Embroidered Book Bindings Workshop | Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University | January 2024
“Queen Elizabeth's Books” | South Central Renaissance Conference, UC Berkeley | April 2023
2022
“An Embroidered Menagerie: Animals Represented in Print and Needlework” | 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
2021-2022
“From Pattern to Pate: An Examination of Early Modern Embroidered English Head-Coverings and their Sources” | 135th Annual Meeting of the AHA | January 2022
“Prayer Books of Girls and Gallants: An examination of 16th and 17th century Embroidered Book Bindings” | Sixteenth Century Society Conference | October 2021
“Animals Finely Wrought: An Exploration of Embroidered Beasts” | Medieval Dress and Textile Annual Conference | May 2021
“Elizabethan Embroidery: Gloriana's Gifts and the Power of the Needle” | South-Central Renaissance Conference | March 2021
“Women's Work Seen and Unseen: the Economic Influence of Needlework” | Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge | January 2021
2019-2020
“Modern Convenience vs. Historically Accurate Couture: The Dilemma of Period Textiles at Heritage Sites” | Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association | November 2020
“A Woman's Communion: Embroidered Devotionals in Early Modern England” | Winter Conference for Ecclesiastical History Society | 2020
“Presence of the Needle” | “Slice of Everyday Life” Conference, University of Cambridge | 2019
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