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Hilary Doda

@hjdoda.bsky.social

PhD. Assistant Professor at the Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie. Early modern & premodern Atlantic world | textile and dress cultures of diaspora communities | theatre nerd. Fibre crafts are a distinct possibility.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I would love to expand the project, honestly! I was badly hampered at the time I was working on it by lockdowns and travel restrictions, but there's so much more I'd love to do with it. There are some amazing textile artisans in this province, and I'd love to talk about more modern craft revivals.

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

January project - learn enough about bobbin lace making that I can bring a demo into my early modern class and not look like an idiot. I'm slowly working my way through Jo Edkins' tutorials, and I'm pretty pleased with the results! Here's my first try at the torchon ground tutorial.

A series of colored threads wrapped around sewing pins stuck through a piece of paper. They make an approximation of a lacy pattern.

A series of 3d-printed bobbins for lace making, hanging from pins pushed into a small lap pillow.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

As promised, the 3d printed table loom. It's quite small, as our printer bed is only 18x18 cm, but it works! The action's a bit stiff and it'll only hold about a meter and a half of warp, but it will be fantastic as a demo tool for my intro fashion history class.

A brown and blue two-heddle table loom, printed in PLA plastic and warped with embroidery floss. A few centimeters of fabric in a basic 1-1 weave is visible.

A side view of a brown and blue two-heddle table loom, printed in PLA plastic and warped with embroidery floss. A few centimeters of fabric in a basic 1-1 weave is visible. Three narrow shuttles are attached, each loaded with a different colour of embroidery floss for the weft.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My book! Short-listed for the 2024 CHA prize for best scholarly book in Canadian History. www.mqup.ca/fashioning-a...

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We got a 3d printer for the house last weekend. I found a pattern for a printable table loom yesterday. I know in my heart of hearts that it will be more frustrating than satisfying to try it out, but how can I not?

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