The Velvets in the Collection of the Costume Gallery in Florence
The Medieval Dress and Textile Society, 01-07-2017, Rosalia Bonito Fanelli
Roberta Orsi Landini has treated specifically the 400 European-manufactured silk velvets and has dated them from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In this study she has correlated guild Regulations, ta
x legislation, sumptuary laws, and other types of archival documentation with a close technical investigation of the individual fabric structures.
Very importantly Landini has arrived at the attributions to
specific weaving centres by comparisons to selvedge-cord statutes. Her research covers the major Italian production centres of Florence, Genoa, Lucca, Milan and Venice. Clearly this all took an enormous effort.