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
3 Imitation in early modern artisan fashion –Sophie Pitman
Experiment in focus I: imitation of fur – Sophie Pitman
Experiment in focus II: knitted stockings – Piia Lempiäinen and Paula Hohti
Experiment in focus III: stamped mock-velvet doublet – Sophie Pitman
Part II: Adornment and display
4 Né vera né falsa: non-elite ownership of pearls in early modern Italy – 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 IV: embodied experience of a tailor-made male doublet – Valerio Zanetti
Experiment in focus V: digital doublet – Maarit Kalmakurki
Experiment in focus VI: imitation of amber and pearls – Michele Nicole Robinson
Part III: Status and credibility
7 The dissemination of fashion: consumption habits and non-essential textile in early modern Italian artisan inventories – Stefania Montemezzo
8 Artisan attire and the politics of dress in seventeenth-century Tallinn – Astrid Wendel-Hansen
9 The clothing of the contadina: women’s work, leisure and morality, 1550–1650 – Elizabeth Currie and Jordan Mitchell-King
10 Practical, professional and prosperous: dressing artisans and small shopkeepers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Denmark – Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
Experiment in focus VII: caring for clothes – Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
Experiment in focus VIII: colour – Paula Hohti
Experiment in focus IX: lace – Michele Nicole Robinson
Index