Fashion and Material Culture History
This research group, led by Professor Paula Hohti, focuses on experimental, material-based research in early modern fashion history. It combines a wide range of historical evidence, including archival documents, printed books, visual images and surviving objects, with methods of historical and digital reconstruction, object-based analyses, and hands-on experimentation on historical textile technologies.
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Our research centers especially on material and cultural meanings of early modern dress and fashion in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The areas of our special interests include:
- Historical and digital reconstruction
- Colours, colour recipes and historical colour reconstruction
- Traditional crafts and textile innovations
- Material experimentation and scientific analysis of historical dress and textiles
- Makers and wearers of fashion, fashion dissemination
- Economic, cultural, social and material meanings of historical dress
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