Säädellyt sävyt: väriaineet, värjärit ja välittäjät yhteiskunnallisen muutoksen kuvaajina, 1400-1850

Näkymiä Leidenistä. Tutkimusryhmämme jäsenet Merja Uotila ja Susanna Niiranen matkustavat tällä viikolla Hollantiin kansainväliseen European Social Science History -konferenssiin (ESSHC) , joka järjestetään Leidenissa 26.–29.3. Esitelmän ”Controlled Colours. Reinterpretations of Socio-Culturally Controlled Dyes and Clothing in Early Modern Southern and Northern Europe” abstraktin pääsee lukemaan alta, ja itse esitys on osa torstain 27.3. Cultural Traditions and Materiality -sessiota. Abstrakti: The production, trade and use of dyed textiles were regulated in many ways in early modern societies: professional dyers and traders were controlled by regulations, while clothes and use of dyed textiles were governed by juridical and cultural norms and the symbolic meanings attached to specific colours. Through the (natural) dyes used in clothing, we can delve into the pre- and early modern social order in which colours and the meanings they carried were intrinsically linked. The social orde...

Today is the European Day of Languages and we would like to remember our international followers and readers. As far as we know, our blog has readers, e.g. from the USA, the Netherlands, Hongkong and Singapore, Germany and Estonia. We would like to remind you that our research group has also published articles on the dyeing industry, use of natural dyes as well as clothing in English. If you wish to read our previous research in English, please have look on the following ones: Uotila, Merja & Paloheimo, Maare (2021): "Textiles in blue. Production, consumption and material culture in rural areas in early-nineteenth century Finland. Scandinacian Economic History Review , 71:2, 199-217 . Open Acces DOI:  10.1080/03585522.2021.2010593   Niiranen, Susanna (2024).“A Hanged Man’s Clothes. Leonardo da Vinci’s Fascination with Dressing.” Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 22, 191-205 . The article is available here . We hope that we can provide you with more articles in Eng...