Craft, Gender and Humanitarian Aid. The Representation of Belgian Lacemakers in the First World War Era

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• 2025

  New opportunities or not? Belgian refugee lacemakers in the First World War

  Wiertz, W., 20 Jun 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• War Lace. Textile Testimonies of Resistance, Solidarity or Control?

  Wiertz, W., 3 Mar 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• 2023

  Lacemaking, Gender Roles and Humanitarian Aid in the First World War

  Wiertz, W., 14 Apr 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• 2022

  Creating and Repeating History: Lace-Aid Programmes in the First World War

  Wiertz, W., 14 Jul 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

  • World War I 100%
  • Aid Programmes 100%
  • Philanthropy 100%
  • Humanitarianism 100%
  • First World War 100%

• Preserving a National Identity. Supporting Belgian Lacemakers in the First World War and its Aftermath

  Wiertz, W., 14 Sept 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• Visual Strategies for Ongoing Care. Appealing to American Donors to Support Belgian Lacemakers after the First World War

  Barber, C., Gill, R. & Wiertz, W., 16 Sept 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

  • Belgian 100%
  • World War I 100%
  • Visual Strategies 100%
  • Ongoing Care 100%
  • First World War 100%

• War Lace. Mobilizing Craft in the First World War

  Wiertz, W., 23 Mar 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

  • World War I 100%
  • Lace 100%
  • Material Culture 100%
  • First World War 100%
  • Craft 100%

• War Lace as Material Culture in a Transnational History of Humanitarian Handicrafts

  Wiertz, W., 29 Mar 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

  • Transnational History 100%
  • Material Culture 100%
  • Humanitarian 100%
  • Handicraft 100%
  • Lace 100%

• 2021

  Patriotic Laces - Hidden Protest. Female Lace-Makers in German-Occupied Belgium during the First World War

  Wiertz, W., 15 Oct 2021.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

  • Belgium 100%
  • World War I 100%
  • Lace 100%
  • First World War 100%
  • Belgian 80%

• Recuperation, Revival and Survival. The Benefits of Handicrafts Programmes for Humanitarian Organisations and their Recipients

  Wiertz, W., 28 Apr 2021.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• 2019

  Belgian Lace as a Humanitarian Product during the First World War

  Wiertz, W., 27 Jun 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• 'Lace is not a Luxury': Strategies to sell Belgian Lace in the U.S. during WWI

  Wiertz, W., 21 Mar 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• Queen Wilhelmina’s War Lace Scarf. Intersubjectivity across Gender, Class, and Borders

  Wiertz, W., 19 Nov 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic

• Survival through Luxury Production. Belgian Refugees making Lace during WWI

  Wiertz, W., 9 Sept 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic