Curriculum
She obtained her diploma in 2000 from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence in the Textile Materials department, with an experimental dissertation on the restoration of a straw cloche. In 2008 she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of Viterbo, on the restoration of decorated polychrome leather objects. In 2004 she was awarded a fellowship at ICCROM in Rome to study Egyptian objects made of plant fibres, and in 2013–14 was a Senior Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to study the museum’s collection of painted and tooled leathers.
From 2002 to 2017 she worked as a conservator of textiles and multi-material objects, primarily for public institutions, both independently and through her firm based at the Museo del Tessuto in Prato, working on maintenance, restoration and exhibition installation. She has published articles on the conservation of textile objects and a catalogue with full entries for the entire collection of embossed leathers at the Museo Stefano Bardini in Florence.
Since 2018 she has been a conservator officer at the Ministry of Culture, working in conservation, restoration and teaching in the Textile and Leather Materials laboratory.
