Refashioning the Renaissance project will organise variety of thematic workshops as well as an open final conference. To stay informed, sign up for our newsletter and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
How was silk fibre prepared in the early modern period? This hands-on workshop, led by Miriam Pugliese from the Nido di Seta cooperative based in Calabria, covered the whole process of extracting silk...
This workshop focuses on the reconstruction of some of the most popular colours of the early seventeenth century that we have found in the Refashioning data, such as golden yellow, black and purple, a...
The Refashioning the Renaissance project focuses on dress and fashion among the middling classes of artisans and traders in Europe in 1550-1650. However, this extensive group of people who made and so...
How could people dress up within their financial, social, and cultural means? Can snail shells and silver leaf combine to create a convincing fake pearl? Were imitation gems and fabrics attractive alt...
What did colours in clothing and textiles look like in the past? How can we visualize and understand colour in early modern documents, and what sources we need to put together, in order to reconstruct...
Can chanterelle mushrooms take the stains out of silk? Might elderberries dye yarn blue? Will scented rose petals make an artisan's linens smell like those of a great lord? On the 11th and 12th of Apr...
This workshop fosters a collaboration between the Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University with the Refashioning the Renaissance Project, and it’s aim is to enable hands-on experimentation...
Refashioning the Renaissance project is presenting four panels in Renaissance Society of America 2019 conference in Toronto, on Sunday 17 March 2019. In recent years there has been a surge in interes...
The purpose of this two-day workshop is to familiarise ourselves with early modern tailoring techniques and to think about how historians can learn and study by doing. The workshop is taught by Melani...
This joint seminar is organised together with the unit for Textile Studies of the Uppsala University and hosted by Dr Cecilia Aneer. The researchers in Uppsala work with production and trade of tex...
Refashioning the Renaissance team is gathering to London for a two-day workshop in early October. The aim of this workshop is to discuss how we can use documentary sources and objects to plan scientif...
Refashioning the Rrenaissance project is pleased to announce an open seminar Fashion and Popular Groups in Renaissance Europe, organised together with the University of Padova Department of Historica...