The oldest items in the Collection at the Totnes Costume and Textile Museum, a pair of 17th century gauntlets made of fine leather and embroidered with silk, silver and gold thread. #historicalcostume#embroidery#gauntlets#totnes 🪡
Spending Caravaggio's birthday reviewing copyedits for my book 'Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio' out next year with Reaktion, with lots of costume books, tavern scenes, plus altarpieces like 'The Madonna of the Rosary', Vienna and 'The Madonna of Loreto', Rome. #earlymodern
I’ve owned this little loom for over 30 years but only got it repaired this August. Now I’m trying out a short warp of towels to see how she goes. This loom is 150 to 200 years old. #handweaving
From the Archive: Historical Reproductions – and a Case Study of Swedish Knitting Traditions (2300 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/hi...
Just came across this lovely design for a waistcoat's embroidery made by the Fabrique de St. Ruf in Lyons in the late #18thc#FashionHistorycollection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects...
In Gainsborough's famous (but long-hidden) portrait of newly-weds Mr & Mrs Andrews, he left one part unfinished, on the enigmatic bride's lap (far R). No-one knows what he intended to put there ~ a purse? knitting? book? lapdog? dead gamebird? future baby? www.artinsociety.com/masters-of-a...
Our door is always open! Welcome to THE LINNEAN ROOM #books#nature#linnean#history#geography#voyages#travelwww.ikfoundation.org/books-and-ar...
From the Archive: Swedish Rag Rugs – A History of Recycling Fabric from the 18th Century to Present-day. iexposure.ikfoundation.org/swedish-rag-...
Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library www.theguardian.com/music/2024/s...
Piece dating from 1760s, probably composed when Mozart was in his early teens, uncovered by researchers in Leipzig
The Blue Room, Château du Bréau by Walter Gay 1917 Watercolour and charcoal on paper (Private Collection)
