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– Promoting Natural & Cultural History. iTEXTILIS led by Viveka Hansen | Textile historian | Textilis.net
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It may not always be very visible in museum exhibitions but every dress collection represents different body shapes across the decades. This is a mid 1790s glazed printed cotton gown in a dizzying pattern of pinks created for a slightly larger body #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Tea in the Garden (1910)
by Léon Georges Carré (French, 1878-1942)
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From the Archive – Essay: Sericulture and Citrus Fruits – 18th Century Naturalists in the Mediterranean Region and Swedish Gardens. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/se...
Such was the value of cloth in the c18th that clothes were frequently repurposed, alterations creating a newly fashionable garment. The striped fabric of this caraco jacket dates to c1760 but the cut is all #1780s. Treasured textiles given new life #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
This is a complicated fabric, a cream silk with supplementary weft floral pattern alongside which a printed purple and green flower trails. The 1840s was a decade of textile technology triumphs, pleated and folded into shape #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Tambour work was a wildly popular embroidery technique in the second half of the c18th and this c 1795 dress is covered in branches of the fine chain stitch. It was worked on a large hoop with a tambour hook, forerunner of the couture luneville technique, Brighton Pavilion
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Kate Strasdin
Kate Strasdin
Kate Strasdin
Kate Strasdin
Rare informal jacket/waistcoat for a man or woman, made in Italy, ca 1630-1700. Hand-knit of coral pink & silver-gilt silk. Full description & more images here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10383/...
Lucy Paquette
Pair of chopines, made in Venice, c. 1600-1620 Green silk velvet and silver-gilt bobbin lace
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Woman in Rain with Umbrella. Ukiyo-e woodblock print. About 1800, Japan. Artist Utagawa Toyokuni I
