Ascension Day Dress
Re-creation of a Venetian peasant woman on the 'Day of the Ascension of Our Lord, a Venetian Holiday and Fair' wearing “a circular apron of silk or some other very thin material, arranged with small fasteners in the form of needle-worked rosettes with narrow silk ties” (in the translated words of Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F. Rosenthal, from 'Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse 'book, illustrated and written by Venetian Cesare Vecellio (c. 1530 – c. 1601).