Abstract
Resource management was the core of early modern manufacture of new goods as well as extended use of objects already in use. This article focuses on reuse of dress items within the Swedish royal family and in the extended royal household in the mid-sixteenth century. Using written sources, it discusses what was reused, how it was reused and who reused it. It also positions these practices in relation to the contemporary Scandinavian ideas of material resource management by viewing them in relation to the husbandry book Oeconomia, or, Household Book of Young Nobility. This shows that reuse may have been considered simply as a form of use and that current needs guided the practices of use.
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