Serena Dyer is a sewing historian. Alongside her research into fashion, shopping, and material culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, her research employs recreation methodologies to explore the methods used to make clothing in the past. She is currently writing her second monograph, Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Georgian Dress, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. This volume traces the importance of hand craft in the making of fashion cultures in the 18th century and incorporates the recreation of a 1760s gown from Leeds Museums. Serena is also PI of the AHRC Research Network, Making Historical Dress: Hands, Bodies, Methods, and is a internationally recognised expert in the recreation methodologies in dress and fashion history,

Previously, Serena wrote the award-winning Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century (Bloomsbury, 2021), and is editor of, with Chloe Wigston Smith, Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain (Bloomsbury, 2020), with Jade Halbert and Sophie Littlewood, Disseminating Dress (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Shopping and the Senses (Palgrave, 2022). She was also shortlisted as an AHRC/BBC new Generation Thinker in 2023, and is the presenter of Fashion Through History (Immediate Media/English Heritage).

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Weblink: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/serena-dyer/serena-dyer.aspx

 

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