Thank you x

Thank you x

Merci beaucoup x

Thank you Sally.

Hi everyone. I’ve been quiet, earlier this week my husband passed away. Anyone who has experienced the loss of a close one will relate..there’s no time to process, no time to grieve, there’s just so much to do. He knew how much this meant to me, I’ll be back ♥️

A long printed cotton dress with tight sleeves and bodice and a repeat printed in a green, pink and red motif against a cream background

A closer detail of the pattern covering the 1840s cotton dress with a complex design of stylised florals

An engraving from the 1840s that shows a calico printing workshop with the large expanse of cotton that was able to be roller printed in longer lengths

Cutting edge technologies are always at the heart of textile manufacture. In the 1840s that involved roller printing, the process that replaced wood block textile prints with a faster method and more complex patterns. I do love an #1840s printed cotton @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Special talk and book launch to mark International Women's Day The event will shine a light on the Scottish women seafarers who lost their lives during wartime in the last century.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!
"Eminent historian"???? Whaat? Hilarious exaggeration but nice all the same.

My book launch is tomorrow evening at the Scottish Maritime Museum - probably still time to book a place: www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/event/talk-a...

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/emi...

@ladyscribe3.bsky.social What about the lace museum in Brussels?

@gailbaxterlace.bsky.social immediately comes to mind for advice but it doesn’t look like she’s active on here. Let me think..

Isabelle Frith, Reading (1845)

by William Powell Frith (British, 1819-1909)

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, U.K.

@artukdotorg.bsky.social

Current exhibition | LSE Library Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

The bodice of a pale yellow silk late 1880s dress embroidered either side of the centre with flowers and stem of daffodils

Full length view of the late 1880s pale yellow dress which cuts away to reveal a petticoat beneath. It has embroidered daffodils running the length of the gown and around to the train as well

A detail of one of the embroidered yellow daffodils worked in long and short silk shading stitch for a painterly effect

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day to my Welsh friends, family and of course Mr S himself. Thus beautiful daffodil strewn late #1880s gown is a perfect tribute #AmericanMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Lovely, thanks!

It’s March, so it has to be the daffodil dress 🌼

Oh interesting. Thank you.

16 years? Her life was taken from her.

Exclusive: Woman paralysed by violent ex urges more awareness of coercive control Trudi Burgess' partner was charismatic, capable and much admired. But he was also a "manipulative, entitled" abuser.

Exclusive: Woman paralysed by violent ex urges more awareness of coercive control
www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

Front view of printed cotton caraco (jacket) with elbow length sleeves, MET

Side view of printed cotton caraco (jacket), MET

Back view of printed cotton caraco (jacket) with pleats, MET

Close up view of C18th printed cotton with small red flowers of caraco (jacket), MET

18th century cotton caraco, Belgian. Via The Met.

The bodice section of a late 1890s green wool gown showing how the embellished appliqué decorates the surface, particularly around the wait with floral stems. Flowers decorate the top of the bodice. It has a high collar

An alternative detail of the bodice decoration on the late 1890s mint green wool dress showing the ivory coloured floral appliqués

A side by side view that shows two different angles of the late 1890s green wool dress with long skirt and cutaway hem treatment revealing the underskirt beneath

This is a favourite for a Friday, a minty green wool blend gown by Coguenhem & Cie lavishly embellished with art nouveau florals, tendrils climbing the bodice and blooming across the shoulders. Late #1890s #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Actress Dame Ellen Terry was born #OnThisDay in 1847. She wore this Alice Comyns-Carr designed 'Banqueting dress', made from lightweight cotton muslin shot through with gold thread, as Lady Macbeth in the 1888 production of Macbeth. National Trust Smallhythe Place collection. #theatre #costume

Front view of printed cotton caraco (jacket) with elbow length sleeves, MET

Side view of printed cotton caraco (jacket), MET

Back view of printed cotton caraco (jacket) with pleats, MET

Close up view of C18th printed cotton with small red flowers of caraco (jacket), MET

18th century cotton caraco, Belgian. Via The Met.

A cream satin ball gown from around 1901 displayed on a dress form. The gown has elbow‑length sheer puffed sleeves, a draped neckline trimmed with lace, and an A‑line skirt. It is richly decorated with hand‑embroidered floral motifs, beadwork, and sequins in metallic tones. A close‑up image shows detailed embroidery at the bodice, including flowers, leaves, and looping ribbon designs worked in gold, green, and jewel-like beads. The gown is part of The Olive Matthews Collection at Chertsey Museum.

#FridayFrocks #Embroidery - gown, c.1901, by a ‘Court Dressmaker’ ‘Madame Clapham’. It is hand embroidered with floral sprays in silks, metalwork, opalescent sequins, paste stones, seed pearls and glass beadwork.

Who in #bookhistory doesn’t love a Victorian advertisement?

Formidable champion of women in medical profession: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) Britain's first qualified woman physician & surgeon, co-founder & Dean of London School of Medicine for Women, first female Dean of British medical school.
Portrait: John Singer Sargent 1900, NPG London

Tunisian couturier Azzedine Alaïa was born #OnThisDay in 1935. Inspired by the work of Madeleine Vionnet, he designed bias-cut dresses using synthetic fibers that cling to the body, such as this 1998 semi-sheer black acetate knit gown. Met Museum collection. #fashionhistory

Florence Nightingale’s therapy tortoise made my day…

Lady Historians Doing Actual Research over here!!!! 💪🏻😒

The back of a fitted silk jacket the fabric in ombré stripes in shades of yellow, brown and pale blue. It has long sleeves and layered ruffled peplum at the bottom of the waist

There is so much to admire in this neat silk #1780s jacket. The ombré stripes run this way and that, making their own decoration and the ruffled peplum sits up at the waist emphasising the piecing of the centre back #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

So sad to see this, he was splendid. Been there many times and it’s horrible.

Absolutely. I will never stop being angry about it.