I was utterly delighted to be invited to the study day, with its topic "Learning through Reconstruction". It was a day full of interesting presentations, about various topics.
I finally got to meet, in person, Geeske Kruseman, who talked about the differences between hose and trousers, from the constructional point of view. Her classification included a look at body geometry and garment geometry; though I had been sort of aware of these differences, it was very nice to have it all spelled out so clearly, and made me realise things in a different way.
The second presentation that stuck really out for me was Alex Makin's paper about her embroidery project - of course, since I was involved in sourcing the silk and some of Alex' needles, and helping to get colours sorted out. It was wonderful to see pictures from the work in progress.
I also particularly enjoyed Ninya Mikhaila's stories from behind the scenes of reconstructing the Arnolfini gown - which was done for the BBC series "A Stitch in Time", and accordingly had its very own, and very special challenges.