| CODE | ISS1803 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Lace Textile in Costumes and Vestments 1 | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Islands and Small States Institute | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Study-unit objective: The objective is to help students understand how lace has been important in the costumes of Royalties, Merchants and Aristocrats and in church vestments, basing on paintings, sculptures, writings and other historical evidence, such as surviving artifacts. Study-unit topics: - Textiles in History - Costumes in the Middle Ages - Costumes in the Baroque Period - Costumes in the 19th Century - Vestments used by Church (Top vestments and undergarments) - Lace in Church furnishings - Lace in Ceremonial costumes Suggested readings: - Boucher, Francois. A History of Costume in the West London: Thames and Hudson 1996 - Earnshaw, Pat. Lace in fashion from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century London: Batsford 1985 - Costume in Malta: A History of Fabric, Form and Fashion de Piro, Nicholas and Cremona, Vicki Ann (editors) Malta: Patrimonju Publishing 1998 - Ribeiro, Aileen and Cumming, Valerie A Visual History of Costume London: Batsford 1989 |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Jill Camilleri |
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