Refashioning the Renaissance

Introduction – Paula Hohti Part I: Innovation and Imitation 1 Transformations in textiles, 1500–1750 – John Styles 2 Ribbon culture in early modern Italy – Andrea Caracausi Experiment in focus I: making silk – Paula Hohti, Miriam Pugliese Experiment in focus II: knitted stockings – Piia Lempiäinen and Paula Hohti 3 Imitation in early modern artisan fashion –Sophie Pitman Experiment in focus III: imitation of fur – Sophie Pitman Experiment in focus IV: stamped mock velvet doublet – Sophie Pitman Experiment in focus V: digital doublet: hidden layers – Maarit Kalmakurki Part II: Adornment and display 4 Né vera né falsa: non-elite ownership of pearls in early modern Italy – Michele Nicole Robinson Experiment in focus VI: imitation of amber and pearls – Michele Nicole Robinson 5 Adorning the everyday: male artisan jewellery in early modern England – Natasha Awais-Dean 6 Dressed to kill: arms, armour and protective attire in Renaissance men’s middle- and lower-class dress – Victoria Bartels Experiment in focus VII: tailor-made male doublet: embodied experience – Valerio Zanetti Part III: Status and credibility 7 The Clothing of the contadina: women’s work, leisure and morality, 1550–1650 – Elizabeth Currie and Jordan Mitchell-King Experiment in focus VIII: lace – Michele Nicole Robinson 8 Practical, professional, and prosperous: dressing artisans and small shopkeepers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Denmark – Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen Experiment in focus IX: caring for clothes – Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen 9 The Dissemination of fashion: consumption habits and non-essential textile in early modern Italian artisan inventories – Stefania Montemezzo 10 Artisan attire and the politics of dress in seventeenth century Tallinn – Astrid Wendel-Hansen Experiment in focus X: colour – Paula Hohti Conclusion – Paula Hohti Index -- .