The Erotic Cloth

List of contributors List of illustrations Foreword, Mary Schoeser Acknowledgements An introduction to The Erotic Cloth Prof. Lesley Millar and Prof. Alice Kettle I. The representation of cloth 1. Folds, scissors and cleavage in Giovanni Battista Moroni’s Il Tagliapanni Angela Maddock 2. A perverted taste: Italian depictions of cloth and puberty in mid-nineteenth-century marble Dr Claire Jones 3. Stitching up: embroidering the sex life of a fetishist image-maker Dr Nigel Hurlstone II. Making and remaking the cloth 4. The rustle of taffeta – the value of hapticity in research and reconstruction of an eighteenth-century Sack-back dress Debra Roberts 5. The embroiderer's jouissance: stitching a feminine identity in an environment of mining machismo Ruth Hingston 6. Flying in the face of fashion; how through punk, fetish and sexually orientated clothing made it into the mainstream Prof. Malcolm Garrett in conversation with Prof. Alice Kettle III. The alternative cloth 7. Present or absent shirts: creation of a lexicon of erotic intimacy and masculine mourning Prof. Catherine Harper 8. Empowering the Replicant: visual and haptic narratives in Blade Runner Caroline Wintersgill and Dr Savithri Bartlett 9. Caressing cloth: the warp and weft as site of exchange Dr Catherine Dormor IV. The performing cloth 10. Curvatures of cloth: William Hogarth’s Line of Beauty and ‘The heart of true eroticism’ in serpentine dance Dr Georgina Williams 11. The echoes of erotic cloth in film Liz Rideal 12. UN/DRESS Masako Matsushita in conversation with Prof. Lesley Millar Afterword: Erotic cloth – the case of kimono Yuko Ikeda