Please help me get the word out! My workshop posts last year apparently got buried = no views. I put so much research and preparation - my mind, heart and soul - into teaching, so would love to see these classes fill up! #FashionHistory #CostumeMakers #HistoricalCostume

Announcement coming soon for three gownmaking workshops I'll be teaching in Scotland in March-April 2027. E-newsletter suscribers will learn all the details first, so head over to timesmith.co.uk and sign up, to hear all about them first. #18thcentury #mantuamaking #workshops

Fragment of a wood-block print on linen. #Egypt, Mamluk period, 1200s-1300s. (The Cleveland Museum of Art)

🎉🎉 Registration now open! 🎉🎉 Two new 18th century gownmaking workshops this autumn: * Sept 19-21: making a sackback gown, aka robe a la francaise. 🥰 * Oct 3-5: making an English gown aka nightgown aka robe a l'Anglaise. 😍 Full details & to book: www.timesmith.co.uk/shop/in-pers...

Dutch enamelled gilt metal Needle-case,c. 1700. In the form of a book, the covers with enamelled birds &foliage , set with amethyst cabochons. #Bijoux @ Christies

The chintz short sack gown is finished! 🙂 The original is held by Dordrecht Museum. All I had to work from were @monalunasimone.bsky.social 's photos on IG (www.instagram.com/p/B8zVRL_FPjD). Can't wait to wear mine to an event this year. #FashionHistory #18thCentury #Mantuamaker #HistoricalDress

The back is pleated. Oh, the joys of working with a symmetrical pattern! . . #18thcenturyfashion #EnglishNightgown #silk #floral #damask #fashion #fashionhistory #dresshistory #textilehistory #everyinchhandstitched #mantuamaker #mantuamaking

I'm building the sleeves for "Mrs Willing's gown", using the sleeve pattern & construction techniques from a silk fitted back gown owned by The School of Historical Dress, published in 'Patterns of Fashion 6'. I really love this shape! #fashionhistory #dresshistory #materialculture

As the February theme for Explore Your Archive is Love, we'll take a look at various ways the late 18th century caricaturist George Woodward put love in his work. To begin with, here is his sweet sketch of 'The Bashful Lovers'. #EYALove #18thcentury #19thcentury #art #ExploreYourArchive

Anna Ioannovna, Empress of Russia, was born #OnThisDay in 1693. For her coronation in 1730, she wore a brocade and silk gown embellished with silver-gilt lace and braid. The train could be raised via a system of cords. Kremlin Museums collection. #fashionhistory #royalfashion

We made it to Footwear Friday! This toddler's shoe is broadly dated by the V&A to 1450-1550 - an unlikely survivor from the Middle Ages. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O107715... 🗃️🪡

Progress on my chintz short sack: making and attaching pleated strips of self fabric as trim. Photo on the right is the extant gown held by Dordrecht Museum, taken by @monalunasimone.bsky.social. #18thC #18thCentury #DressHistory #FashionHistory #chintz #TextileHistory #Mantuamaker

I'm planning a gown making workshop in Scotland later this year. Need to find a classroom to hire! #ThrowbackThursday to making this long #sackgown at Paxton House nearly 2 years ago - fantastic place for a photoshoot afterwards! #dresshistory #fashionhistory #18thcentury #mantuamaking #TBT

Exquisite work by Sarah Thursfield -- as usual! 😍

Wonderful bobbles (? tassles?) on this early 19th c. pelisse. Lovely colour, too.

Absolutely gorgeous textile elevates a deceptively simple design. I do love just how subtly different from English styles this is.

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For more on the Flusco Pike hoard #cumbria Here is one of the brooches which has a futhark #runic inscription on the back of the hoop and some doodles on the terminals including runes and a cross. Note the rather nifty beasties joining terminal & hoop, c.930 #medievalsky

Archaeologists baffled by headline suggesting they're shocked by major new analysis confirming long-discussed (deep) historic social phenomenon. 😲😱🙄 🏺 www.independent.co.uk/news/science... via @the-independent.com

Coffee, anyone? The year is 1761 and this boy is carefully serving coffee to the workers in an #earlymodern print shop. (1/2)

Done... but not done! I have finished building my chintz short sack gown, but the extant it is based on has some lovely trim, so that's coming next. The "flap" in the robings will get fixed as I attach trimmings, and I might re-set the pleats over the hips... #18thC #FashionHistory #Mantuamaker

Calling all #skystorians! Tell us your favourite Routledge History book from 2024 and we’ll pick one lucky person to win a Routledge book of their choice. Reply using the hashtag #Routledgehistory by 16th December 2024. We will then pick a winner out of a figurative hat on 17th December!

"The historian scoffs when I ask if such insight is well paid. “Are you mad?! I’m not a lawyer, none of this is lucrative,” she says." My wonderful colleague Amanda Vickery on the work of the historical consultant. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

Going to kick off my Bluesky experience with a blog post I wrote back in May for Museums and Galleries Edinburgh, on some of their amazing early modern collection! www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/stories/volu...

At first glance I thought this was a painting. Zoom in to see the stitchwork. National Trust Cotehele @CoteheleNT #textiletuesday #embroidery

Sixteenth-century wills and material culture in the news!

I will be one of the three guests discussing the Hanoverian Succession tomorrow morningn on 'In Our Time' on BBCR4. Looking forward to hearing the programme! #skystorians #c18th www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"Madame Dangé faisant des nœuds" by Louis Tocqué (Louvre, Accession No. RF 1480). What a large knotting shuttle! All the lace and how it's worn makes me think 1760s but I'm not finding a firm date for this painting - anyone know more? #FashionHistory #18thC #C18 #18C #DressHistory #ArtHistory 🗃️🪡

Here's another very cool #18thC candlestick.

We are delighted to be able to offer the BSECS/Georgian Papers fellowship again this year. £1,000 to support a project drawing on the papers of the Georgian Papers Programme. **DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY 2025** #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ #history www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Very cool candlesticks of enamel, which I've not seen before.

#18thc and the memories of it:

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My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This book came out in 2018, but I just discovered it. Sharing for fellow botany enthusiasts!

This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Yes. Internships are work. Pay for work. Unpaid internships are a way the upper class restricts entry to and early networking inside professional fields because poor and working class students can't afford to do them. Your internship gives class credit? Fuck you. Pay your interns.

My favourite class today where we spend time studying the magnificent manuscript collection at Edinburgh's CRC. I have set manuscripts that we look at, but every year I also call up a wild card - this year it was this extraordinary Flemish Book of Hours (MS 312) - such a 💎

I asked an intro to medieval class on the last day “you may never take a history class again, but what can you take away from this class to the rest of your studies and career?” And their responses were awesome.

Trying to do research on Oneonta dressmakers with a town directory (1889-1890) - a bunch of people have "r r s" after their name. Anybody know what that's about? 🗃️

Come dig with us at Gabii

Joining in on the fun and making a starter pack for fashion and textile history. It's pretty small right now, but I'm hoping the community will grow! If you're an academic in the field, a living historian, someone who blogs about the subject - comment to be added! go.bsky.app/NX5duX8

Hi folks. Please request an add/share/like to join the Material Culture starter pack! go.bsky.app/GARWutv

Looking forward to sharing the work I've done this year for Culloden Battlefield NTS with the Jacobite Studies Trust this evening!

A highlight of the conference!

Here's a whirlwind visual overview of the "From Canvas to Silk" programme I devised and led at the National Trust for Scotland's Georgian House in Edinburgh earlier this year. youtube.com/shorts/5Ewcp...