Christy Gordon Baty

Teaching Experience, Lectures and Workshops

Recent Presentations (2023-2025)

• “Embodied History: Recreating the Embroidery of Esther Inglis” | February 2025

• “The Dog Days: Our Loyal Friends in Needlework, Patterns, and Paintings” | September 2024

•  “Needlework Embellishments: A Guide to Embroidery Styles in Elizabethan England” | July 2024

• “Stitching the Trevelyon: Crewelwork” | December 2023

•  “Stitching the Trevelyon: Blackwork” | August 2023

•  “Needlework in the Tudors Exhibit” | July 2023

Academic Guest Lectures

•  “Elizabethan Embroidery: Gloriana's Gifts and the Power of the Needle” | Guest Lecturer, University of Delaware Graduate Class in History and Material Culture

Educational Workshops and Public Lectures (2016-2022)

• “Elizabethan Gardens: Queen Elizabeth's Flowers” | November 2021

• “Caps & Coifs: Exploring Embroidered Headwear” (co-teacher) | March 2021

• “In the Jacobean Home: English Embroidered Textiles and Furnishings” | November 2020

• “Elizabethan Gardens: Carnations and Cornflowers” | April 2020

• “The Necessity of the Needle: Historical Embroidery in England” | July 2020

•  “In the Archives of Colonial Williamsburg” | Colonial Dames of America | 2019

•  “Accessing Collections” | Bay Area Sampler Guild | 2018

•  “Behind the Scenes at the MFA Boston” | EGA | 2018

•  “Elizabethan Gardens” Workshop | Santa Cruz EGA | 2017

•  “In the Archives at Colonial Williamsburg” | Bay Area Sampler Guild | 2017

•  “Stitching the Trevelyon” 4-day seminar | National EGA Seminar | 2016

•  “Putting Together a Museum Kit” | EGA National Seminar | November 2016

• “In the Archives at Colonial Williamsburg” | Valley Quail EGA | March 2016