Zooming into History: An Interview with Cristina Balloffet Carr on Examining Early Modern Textiles Under the Microscope

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Carr, Cristina B./ Ulinka Rublack/ Stefan Hanß, “Zooming into History: An Interview with Cristina Balloffet Carr on Examining Early Modern Textiles Under the Microscope”, in: Materialized Identities: Objects, Affects and Effects in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1750, https://www.materializedidentities.com/single-post/2017/07/04/Zooming-into-History-An-Interview-with-Cristina-Balloffet-Carr-on-Microscoping-Early-Modern-Textiles. [→]

Cristina Balloffet Carr, conservator for early modern textiles at the New York Metropolitan Museum, is a pioneer of digital microscopy for textiles. In this interview, she is responding to the questions of Cambridge historians Ulinka Rublack and Stefan Hanss, explaining why microscopy tells us so much about making skills and their meaning.