Many costumers will be well aware of the Costume and Textiles in the Medici Archive.
The Medici Archive Project was founded in 1995 in order to produce documentary sources for scholars and realize the potential of the Medici Granducal Archive, housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence. An aspect of this project is to document Costume and Textiles in the Medici Archive. The archive itself has a long and interesting history as it was founded in 1540.