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Quilted skirt - Groninger museum Holland
Costumes de Théâtre 1670 à 1820
Chintz in the Fries museum – How chintz was worn
My second post about the exhibition ‘Sits – katoen in bloei’ (Chintz – cotton in bloom) in the Fries Museum! My first post was about color and patterns, and before that I wr…
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F, silk, 1770c, English; Ivory, scalloped and pinked trim, hooded. Museum Number T.37-1958.
Chintz in the Fries museum – How chintz was worn
My second post about the exhibition ‘Sits – katoen in bloei’ (Chintz – cotton in bloom) in the Fries Museum! My first post was about color and patterns, and before that I wr…
Adrienne and Quilted Petticoat (c.1740-1750). This adrienne and quilted petticoat was worn as wedding dress by a bourgeois lady who married into a family of iron manufacturers. Dress, silk, linen,embroidery, quilting, 1740-50, KM 77.976, Photo Lars Westrup, Kulturen|
Underneath It All
Even if you are not a fashion historian, you have likely seen images of the clothing people wore in the past. Whether you saw them online, or in your own family photos, the outer garments of indiv…
Jacket, 1780-95 From Historic Deerfield Museum