Colloque international : “A History of Textile Cleanliness”, Berne, Institute of Art History – University of Bern, du 28 au 29 mai 2026
A History of Textile Cleanliness: Washing and Perfuming Fabrics from the Medieval to the Modern Period. In 2024, the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the MET (New York) engaged visitors in the museum experience by recreating the displayed dresses’ scents – identified through chromatographic analysis – to illuminate their history and relationship to bodily senses. The analyses and interpretations published in the catalogue reveal not only the presence of perfumes but also traces of cosmetics, sebum,...



