Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe

Sarah A. Bendall is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. Her research explores the production and consumption of early modern fashionable goods. Her first book Shaping Femininity was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. She is Co-I of the AHRC-funded network, Making Historical Dress. Serena Dyer is Associate Professor of Fashion History, De Montfort University. She is author of Material Lives (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Labour of the Stitch (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and editor, with Chloe Wigston Smith, of Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Bloomsbury, 2020). She leads the AHRC-funded network, Making Historical Dress.

• Foreword -Evelyn Welch, 1. The Bodies of Makers - Sarah A. Bendall and Serena Dyer, PART I: Making and Embodied Knowledge, 2. Bodies and Gender Identities in the Making of Silk Fibre in Seventeenth-Century France -Susan Broomhall, 3. Bodies and Spices in the Early Modern European, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Worlds -Amanda E. Herbert and Neha Vermani, 4. Attending to the Tacit; Or, Knowledge Trickles Upwards -Leonie Hannan, PART II: Re-Making and Embodied Experiences, 5. 'Your Companions Will Teach You': Makers' Knowledge in Renaissance Cosmetics Recipes -Jill Burke and Wilson Poon, 6. Beautiful Experiments: Reading and Reconstructing Early Modern European Cosmetic Recipes -Erin Griffey with Michél Nieuwoudt, 7. Remaking Sixteenth-Century Botanical Woodblocks: Embodied Artisanal Knowledge in Early Modern Woodcutting -Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen, 8. Generating Bodies: Investigating Foundation Garments and Maternity through Making -Sarah A. Bendall and Catriona Fisk, Index