Historical textiles

By two textile nerds

2/16/2011: History of Textile Design : Later Medieval 12th – 15th c.

Textile Fragment | Coptic | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "English Domestic Needlework of the XVI, XVII, and XVIII Centuries," November 6–December 2, 1945.New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Fine Art of Costume," October 15, 1954–February 28, 1955

Fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, from the middle-class drawing room to the Arts and Crafts movement. Jessica Roberson explores the bibliomania, patriotism, and issues around gender so central to the revival.

Design for a woven silk by Anna Maria Garthwaite, Spitalfields, 1731 - 1732.

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today.

You all — especially our Patreon supporters, whose requests we take very seriously! — have been asking for an in-depth review of The Duchess (2008) for a while now, but I’ll admit to being overwhel…

By two textile nerds

This weekend is going to be wonderful. In fact, the next three months Berlin will be wonderful if you're interested in fashion or embroidery - or both! The exhibit "Fashioning Fashion" is here from April 27 - July 29, 2012 at the German Historical Museum. The exhibit was first opened at t