Tuesday 26 October 2010

Shooting From The Hip: Genoa 26/10/2010


The cool, gilded elegance of the Durazzo-Giustiniani archive in Genoa, where I have been reading the household account books of a sixteenth-century noblewoman.

2 comments:

  1. Oooo! would so love to be doing that :) Wonder if you have any reading recommendations for basic European 17thC textile history? My next *big* project *may* be about the representation of textiles in early modern French lit :)

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  2. Oh - gorgeous, and your research sounds fascinating!

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