Making a Tächli-Tüchli: the reconstruction of an eighteenth-century Zürich veil
In February 2018, project members Susanna Burghartz and Katherine Bond joined forces with the dress and textile specialist Hilary Davidson to reconstruct the remarkable height and idiosyncratic shape of Zürich church veils in the eighteenth century. Known locally as ‘Tächli-Tüchli’, they were aesthetically striking, resembling, with their sharp folds and steep points, the nib of a fountain pen. In their time, Tächli-Tüchli were the subject of vehement campaigning by Zürich’s
