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Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.
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John Bright Collection
8 months ago
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
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faith
9 months ago
this 1887 painting featuring turkish women in bustles and hijab has made my day. 'women in travel' by osman hamdi bey.
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Dr Sally Tuckett
10 months ago
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
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Dr Fern Riddell
9 months ago
Delighted to see that Queen Victoria’s Journals are back up and running, and freely accessible for everyone in the UK once more:
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9 months ago
#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.
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Emma Mitchell
9 months ago
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 🌿
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Kate Atherley
10 months ago
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...
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The Guardian
11 months ago
Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown
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Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown
Manchester Art Gallery exhibition features dress inspired by outfit worn by abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond For nearly 160 years, the blue plaque has marked sites of historic importance. Now one English institution has found its own way of signifying a…
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/14/artist-traces-manchesters-links-to-slavery-on-blue-cotton-gown?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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John Bright Collection
11 months ago
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
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Matthew McCormack
11 months ago
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...
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In Conversation: Shoes and the Georgian Man
Serena Dyer talks with Matthew McCormack about his new book, Shoes and the Georgian Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2025.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-shoes-and-the-georgian-man-tickets-1040061019507?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Tiny treasures on my feed in the week we discovered tiny ladies’ magazines in a Victorian purse
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Diane Watt
12 months ago
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.
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Imperfect Product
12 months ago
GoMA on the radio tonight!
@weare1of100.bsky.social
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National Trust
12 months ago
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
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Glasgow Women's Library
about 1 year ago
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
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National Library of Scotland
about 1 year ago
Welcome to the National Library of Scotland's Bluesky account! We're chuffed to be joining you all here 🦋 Lets run through some introductions!
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Women's History Network
about 1 year ago
📢 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
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
https://womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-conference-2025-call-for-papers/
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Brooke Welborn
about 1 year ago
Here is my current list of accounts to follow for
#dresshistory
and
#textilehistory
go.bsky.app/UFrjFze
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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
about 1 year ago
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Dr Sarah Scaturro
about 1 year ago
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...
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Emma Mitchell
about 1 year ago
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...
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And a sumptuous detail while I add hashtags
#dresshistory
#fashionhistory
#19thC
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about 1 year ago
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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
about 1 year ago
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Paula
about 1 year ago
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...
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Find your nearest Winter Connections space - Renfrewshire Website
Winter Connections spaces and events in Renfrewshire.
https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/13008/Find-your-nearest-Winter-Connections-space
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Karie Bookish
about 1 year ago
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.
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
about 1 year ago
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...
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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
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For this week’s
#Tudor
Sunday is a stunning bed head in
#BurrellCollection
made for
#HenryVIII
and his fourth wife
#AnneofCleves
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Dr Ella Hawkins
about 1 year ago
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. 🍪
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Some fab
#TurkeyRed
peacocks for
#TextileTuesday
spotted by
@sallytuckett.bsky.social
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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
about 1 year ago
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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
about 1 year ago
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Sarah Mead Leonard
about 1 year ago
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/...
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Fabulous Fashion!
about 1 year ago
Girl’s bonnet with original box 1852 Source FIDM,
fidmmuseum.pastperfe...
#victorianfashion
#fashionhistory
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Shirley Wajda
about 4 years ago
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
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Adrian Streete
about 1 year ago
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...
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https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/researchfellows/
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John McCafferty
about 1 year ago
August von Sachsen, 1565 Lucas Cranach the Younger (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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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
about 1 year ago
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Chloe Wigston Smith
about 1 year ago
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.
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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
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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
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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
about 1 year ago
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Susie Dent
about 1 year ago
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).
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A Guide To Regency Dress
about 1 year ago
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!
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Simone
about 1 year ago
Fashion plate from 1787 depicting the latest Viennese fashion. Journal des Luxes under der Moden. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
#FashionHistory
#18thc
#FashionPlateFriday
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Simone
about 1 year ago
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
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Simone
about 1 year ago
Fashionable bonnets depicted in Costume Parisien, 1819. From the collection of Willet-Holthuysen.
#FashionHistory
#19thc
#FashionPlateFriday
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Kate Strasdin
about 1 year ago
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
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Briony Neilson
about 1 year ago
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)
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