Project blog
This five year, ERC-funded study of Renaissance dress explores how fashion emerged and developed among new social groups in Europe in 1550-1650, and transformed the 'look' and experience of fashion - visually and materially - at popular levels of society.
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Natural Purples on Silk – Discovering an Early Modern Palette
29 August 2023
By Kirsi Mantua-Kommonen In 2022-23, the ERC-Refashioning project carried out a historical velvet waving experiment, in collaboration with the Fashion History Lab at Aalto University,...
Representing Renaissance textures and colours digitally
20 April 2022
By Maarit Kalmakurki In this blogpost, I discuss how textures and colours are created as digital garments and how beneficial digital animation is for testing different Renaissance fabrics...
19 January 2022
By Liisa Kylmänen Taking on a challenge I’ve been knitting since I was a teen and loved all kinds of needlework all my life. I also love historical clothes so when I heard that...
1 February 2021
Italian Renaissance is known mainly through art works, decorative objects, and fashion manufactures that were owned, used and admired by the high-ranking wealthy elites. Before...