Home News & Events Events Events Archive Events Archive Speaker: Anna Dumont Knotting Time: Lace, Labor and Gender in Italy Research Seminar Online event via Zoom Date: May 24, 2021 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Anna Dumont Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it In late 19th-century Italy, lacemaking was seen as a reclamation of the Italian past and the key to its industrial future. As the lace revival set thousands of women to work, however, the female lacemaker remained an ambiguous figure. [more]