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Kirsty Hassard

Assistant Curator, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion

I'm an assistant curator in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between print culture and fashion in the eighteenth century, and I'm currently working on a workshop and conference commemorating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the first manual on silk design in Europe.

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert Guest Post: Reading Joubert: Stop and Study the Roses

Iris Moon is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the Pratt Institute, New York. She discovered Joubert while doing research on the Lyon silk...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert Guest Post: Joubert and Saint-Aubin: Translating the Textile Trades

Tabitha Baker is a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD student at the University of Warwick and the V&A, supervised jointly by Professor Lesley Miller and Professor...

Caring for our collections

Joubert: Anna Maria Garthwaite, and Women Working in Silk Design

One of the most unusual, and refreshing aspects that I have found whilst reading Le Dessinateur are Joubert’s opinions on women being involved in the process of silk...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert Guest Post: Interpreting the Lionel Harris collection of textiles at the Courtauld Institute of Art through Joubert

A recent MA graduate of Professor Katie Scott’s course: The Case of Eighteenth-Century France at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Lucy Scovell was invited to return with...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert Guest Post: Joubert Manual: A Path to Textiles Comprehension

This week’s blogpost is from another participant of the workshop – Moira Dato, who is a graduate of Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and is currently studying at...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert: An Anglophile in Lyon

As you know already, on 5th of March we will be having a conference on Joubert and his influences here in London. It is not by chance that Joubert is brought back to life here...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert Guest Post: Embroidery Designs

This week’s blog post comes from a participant from the workshop in December , Sarah Piettre, who is a graduate of the Université Paris IV – Sorbonne, and currently...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert: An eighteenth century travel guide to Paris

In our previous posts, we’ve introduced the workshop, and provided context on the book and its author. This is week is a bit of a departure from silk design, as it concerns...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert: Life of Joubert and Conference

In 2016, an eighteenth-century manual will be revived here, in London. This manual is Le Dessinateur pour les etoffes d’or, d’argent et de soie, which in English would more or...

Textiles and Fashion

Joubert – Commemorating 250 years of silk design

Over the past few months, myself and some colleagues in the Fashion and Textile department, in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute of Art, have been busy organising a...