In their free time, our assistant curators Sage & Annie have come up with an exciting project. Follow them and their collaborators on instagram at @uncovering.dressmakers to learn more! #19thcenturydressmaking #whomademyclothes #historyofdress #historyoffashion #victorianfashion #vintagelabels

this 1887 painting featuring turkish women in bustles and hijab has made my day. 'women in travel' by osman hamdi bey.

Transatlantic Threads is now available for preorder! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transat... Use code NEW30 for 30% discount. @edinburghup.bsky.social Image: David Allan (1744-1796) thought to be one of earliest known portraits of a black woman by a Scottish artist. Nationalgalleries.org

Delighted to see that Queen Victoria’s Journals are back up and running, and freely accessible for everyone in the UK once more: www.proquest.com/qvj/?account...

#FridayFrocks #SpringIntoAction: Here’s a garment that would be very suitable for the lovely warm weather we’re currently experiencing here in the UK. This wonderful pair of cotton Beach pyjamas date from c.1933 – 1938.

I'm recovering from a breakdown at the moment and trying to get back on my feet with my workshops & Etsy. If you could maybe RT my new creative & mental health workshop (previous few posts today,Friday 25th) it would help so much to show it to a few more eyes. I'd really appreciate it, thankyou 🌿

New online class coming this spring: Introduction to Shawl Knitting, with Rowan Connect. A four-week class designed for lace novices, this dives deep into everything you need to know to be confident with a lace project. Sessions are recorded for later viewing. www.rowanconnect.net/introduction... 🧶

Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown

Cheerful stripes swing gracefully as a lady turns towards her friend in a plate from 1831 'La Mode', illustrating how our bodice might have looked before its skirt was cut off. www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/bodice-and-inner-sleeve-supports-2/#1830sfashion #1830sdress #costumehistory

Next week, I'll be having a chat about my new book with @serenadyer.bsky.social as part of the Northampton-Leicester @histassoc.bsky.social programme. 6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...

Tiny treasures on my feed in the week we discovered tiny ladies’ magazines in a Victorian purse

Any one on here know anybody working on Juliana Berners, The Book of St Albans? Or Sopwell Priory? Burrell Collection falconry furniture to grab your attention.

GoMA on the radio tonight! @weare1of100.bsky.social

Tomorrow is #NationalSnowdropDay! We’ll be celebrating these iconic heralds of spring all day. Wondering how to look after these little bulbs, or where you can see them in the UK? Check out our feed tomorrow, where we’ll also be reposting your snowdrop pics, so don’t forget to tag us! 📸James Beck

Hello to all of our new followers! Glasgow Women’s Library offers: Books📚 Museum Collections 🕰 Archive Collections 📜 Public Events 🎟 Learning Opportunities 📝 Exhibitions 🔲 Adult Literacy & Numeracy 💭 A safe space ❤️ A warm welcome 🤗 A cup of tea ☕️ And so, so much more 🗣👩‍🎨📽🎶 #LibrariesMatter

Welcome to the National Library of Scotland's Bluesky account! We're chuffed to be joining you all here 🦋 Lets run through some introductions!

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

Here is my current list of accounts to follow for #dresshistory and #textilehistory go.bsky.app/UFrjFze

For #TextileTuesday here’s a lovely #tapestry c1500 depicting #January in #BurrellCollection showing a wealthy family host a guest - who they’ve sat in the best seat next to the fire. It was lent by Mrs Burrell to the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition #textilehistory

We’ve got five stellar paid internship opportunities in our conservation department, varied levels from undergraduate/pre-program to graduate, working with objects, paintings, or frames. recruiting.ultipro.com/CLE1004CMA/J...

I've opened my Etsy shop for: 🌿botanical calendars to arrive in Jan 🐚a few of my limited edition art prints 🪶jewellery orders for🌲(UK only) 🌸vouchers for my jewellery designs(rest of world) My prints & calendars are designed using recent research to improve mental health: etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

And a sumptuous detail while I add hashtags #dresshistory #fashionhistory #19thC

Heading to work Christmas dinner & wishing I had something as warm and festive as this red silk velvet dolman in #GlasgowMuseums collection to wear on the freezing bus

If you’re struggling to keep warm at home or just struggling with the dark winter days and are in Renfrewshire, there’s lot of Winter connections groups on this winter for free www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/1300...

A very chilly day in Glasgow. If you are struggling to stay warm, remember that Glasgow Libraries have the heating on and offer free hot drinks. No need for a library card to snuggle up on a seat.

It’s that special time of year where I tell you about 19th century Christmas cards being so batshit weird! Here’s a podcast I did with Dr Ferren Gipson - expect clowns assaulting cops, polar bears savaging men, giant wasps attacking kids, and more weird animal fun! artuk.org/discover/sto...

Here’s a couple of details of two of the panels with ‘HA’ on the left and #HenryVIII’s title on the right “King of England and France, Lord of Ireland, and Head of the Church of England’ #Wolfhall #16thC

For this week’s #Tudor Sunday is a stunning bed head in #BurrellCollection made for #HenryVIII and his fourth wife #AnneofCleves

Centuries ago, many astronomical books included moving parts to help readers interpret the world around them. This biscuit recreates a diagram from Sacrobosco’s ‘De Sphaera’ (c.1550). It could be used to calculate the changing length of daylight hours through the year. 🍪

Some fab #TurkeyRed peacocks for #TextileTuesday spotted by @sallytuckett.bsky.social 👇🏻

For #TextileTuesday here’s another #Tudor textile from the Kimberley collection now in #BurrellCollection - an embroidered panel, possibly headcloth for a bed as there’s a matching valance, in red wool mockado velvet, appliquéd black velvet floral motifs and yellow embroidery #16thC #TextileHistory

Continuing my #Tudor Sunday posts here’s a lovely heraldic stained glass showing the arms of #HenryVIII impaled with those of #JaneSeymour - one of four stained glass shields with both their arms in the #BurrellCollection #16thC

It's happening, I'm trying to make #WednesdayWallpaper a thing. And starting off strong with William Morris's "Trellis", 1862 (designed)/1864(manufactured) - with birds by Philip Webb. Distemper color on paper, printed by Jeffrey & Co. V&A E.452-1919 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78220/...

Girl’s bonnet with original box 1852 Source FIDM, fidmmuseum.pastperfe... #victorianfashion #fashionhistory

Covid-19 interrupted the publication of an essay colleagues and I wrote four years ago on the 1920s One-Hour Dress. Finally acquired the images and today submitted everything to be published. Celebrated by taking a long nap. #ImAnOld #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #DIY

Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

August von Sachsen, 1565 Lucas Cranach the Younger (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

For this week’s #TextileTuesday here’s a rather unusual #17thC embroidered panel depicting David and Sheba - particularly fun are the #raisedwork butterfly on the tree, spider walking across the building and turkey in the right border #Textilehistory

For everyone in your life, I mean those in the US and Canada, with academic monographs on their holiday wish lists, Yale UP is running the 30% sale code HOL30 until December 6th. This includes my book, too.

The valances had been in the Wodehouse family at Kimberley for centuries until they sold them in the early 1930s. The Burrells purchased them in 1933 and - textile conservators may want to look away - displayed them on a tester bed at Hutton Castle in the Scottish borders #textilehistory #embroidery

A detail shows the appliquéd design with ‘HA’ for #HenryVIII and #AnneBoleyn with acorns - a royal emblem - and honeysuckles - one of Anne’s emblems #textilehistory #embroidery #16thC

Continuing on from last Sunday’s #Tudor theme here is one of a pair of rare surviving valances in the #BurrellCollection made for #HenryVIII and #AnneBoleyn #textilehistory #16thC

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

I would like to announce that I have a third book on Regency dress in the works. *Not* centred on Jane Austen, this one's a general guide to clothing, hair, jewellery and textiles of Britain c. 1795-1820, out October 2025, again with the wonderful @yalebooks.bsky.social. More details as they arrive!

Fashion plate from 1787 depicting the latest Viennese fashion. Journal des Luxes under der Moden. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum. #FashionHistory #18thc #FashionPlateFriday

Fashion plate from 1822 depicting a woman wearing a blue redingnote with red trimmings. Costume Parisien. From the collection of Willet-Holthuysen. #FashionHistory #19thc #FashionPlateFriday

Fashionable bonnets depicted in Costume Parisien, 1819. From the collection of Willet-Holthuysen. #FashionHistory #19thc #FashionPlateFriday

Charles Frederick Worth was partial to referencing the natural world in his lavish textiles. This historically influenced mid #1880s ballgown consists of a voided velvet with arum lily repeating, trimmed with bunches of ribbon and creamy lace, Kerry Taylor Auctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Another day, another design for a ballet costume for a vegetable. Today’s special: the radish (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)