The boards of the KIVI History of Technology Section and the Histechnica Association have the pleasure of inviting you to attend a lecture to be given by Ms Elise Kloppers, entitled:

Delft - glorious weaving city

Programme:

10.30:00: Building open; reception with coffee

11:00: Lecture by artist Elise Kloppers

11:45: Break

12:15: Continuation of lecture / concluding discussion

12:45: End of the meeting

Registration is required to attend this lecture. The registration deadline closes on Saturday, 31 August 2019.

How to register:

- KIVI members should register via the KIVI website (red button on the right)

- Interested parties who are not KIVI members are also welcome and can register there. Please note: There is a cost (25.00 including 2-month donor membership).

Summary of lecture

Lecture on the history and techniques of weaving in Delft.

1) In the County of Holland, weaving was a cottage industry and was also practised in the studios of nunneries such as St Agatha, now the Prinsenhof. Weavers became free professionals and organised themselves into guilds. Inspectors took care of the judging in the Cloth Hall built in Delft as early as 1316 and called the 'Wantshuis'. They judged the draperies and provided them with a lead. The Delft Cloth Fabric was born. This leading product led to the 1st boom period that began in the 15th century and ended with the city fire of 1536. Delegates from Amsterdam, Haarlem and Leiden even came to Delft to admire and copy the techniques.

2) At the end of the 16th century, Flemish Protestants fled to Delft, among other places. Among them were skilled fabric andtapestry weavers such as François Spiering and his designer Karel van Mander den Ouden, among others, the tapestry series Diana was created. In addition, Delft was first known for the very finely woven fabric the Puycken. Also, the English had their cloth fabrics dyed black in Delft. In my talk, I will elaborate on various aspects and explain them with pictures, objects, proverbs and street names.

Information about the speaker

Elise Kloppers (1941) 's-Gravenhage. Her father studied electrical engineering in Delft and Zurich, (CH), where he met her mother. She mastered the hat craft. Elise grew up with furniture from de Stijl. The Bauhaus and Gispen. As a 7 and 8-year-old, she lived in Switzerland to become acquainted with her Swiss family. There, she learned to write on a lij, had gymnastics among the crocuses and learned to swim in a gently flowing river. Her family includes many visual artists.

Elise Kloppers graduated in 1964 and 1967 in autonomous textiles, design and weaving. She worked in secondary education as a Visual Artist for 20 years. In 1996, she organised the exhibition "Delft (weaving) with Textiles" at the former Techniekmuseum to mark the celebration of 750 years of city rights. In doing so, she wrote the booklet: Historical Textile Walk through Delft. She is a member of IAPMA, Weaving Network and OWD. She was vice-president of the Visual Arts Department of the ABOP. She was president and curator of the International Textilkünstler Spektrum, (De). Her works appear in numerous catalogues. She exhibits worldwide. www.elisekloppers.com.

Upcoming activities:

- saturday, 12 October 2019:

Lecture "One hundred years of wristwatch - a bird's eye view" by Mr A.J. Barnard, jeweller and teacher of watchmaking at the Schoonhoven Craft School.

Furthermore: Information on the study trip to Turin and Bologna in April 2020 by ir. Ton Boele.

- tuesday 12 November 2019 ("outdoor day" in Haarlem), 10.30 a.m. to about 3.30 p.m:

Visit to Teylers Museum and Hodshon House (Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) with lectures on 1) history Teylers Museum, 2) Prof Lorentz's Haarlem years and 3) Dr Sam Goudsmit, Dutch-American nuclear physicist and his hunt for Hitler's atomic bomb.

Guided tours and talks will be given by Teylers' Curator of Sciences and Frank W. van den Berg, president of KIVI-GdT.

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