How were early modern textiles and clothing items made? How did it feel to wear or touch typical garments of the Renaissance period, such as doublets or knitted stockings? What level of skill was involved in making these?
In 2017-2022, Professor Paula Hohti and her team carried out research on 16th and 17th-century dress and material culture, experimenting with a combination of methods such as archival research and early modern textile techniques and recipes. The ERC-funded research project Refashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups and the Material and Cultural Significance of Clothing in Europe 1550-1650 was based in Aalto University, Finland.
About the project:
Refashioning the Renaissance project combined theoretical perspectives and practical hands-on work to investigate how fashion emerged and developed among new social groups in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
Using documentary sources, visual images, surviving material evidence and historical reconstructions, the project aimed to shed light on popular taste, dissemination, transformation and adaptation of fashion, as well as on meaning and changing cultural attitudes to dress. The central goal of the project was to develop a new material-based methodology and approach to Renaissance fashion. This involved experimenting with a range of techniques, including archival research, technical analysis of textiles, dye- and fibre analysis, and the reconstruction and visualization of historical dress using both 16th-century recipes as well as modern digital tools such as digital animation.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 726195.
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