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Isabella Rosner

@isabellarosner

Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her

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It is John, yes! This is from a London record. Thanks for your help!

08.02.2026 11:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you Liesbeth! And sorry for my very delayed response!

08.02.2026 11:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lovely! Thank you!! And sorry for my delayed response -- was logged out of Bluesky!

08.02.2026 11:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yes, perfect! Thank you!

08.02.2026 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hehe! Thank you!

08.02.2026 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! It will be recorded

26.11.2025 21:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m thrilled to be giving this year’s Kelmscott Lecture, the annual lecture hosted by the William Morris Society. I’m excited to be dipping my toe into the world of the Arts and Crafts movement. Join us in person or online! Tickets are here: williammorrissociety.org/events/the-k...

12.11.2025 18:24 👍 51 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

I’ve not read this but I will! Seth is a delight and I love his work. So lucky to have gotten to interview him!

22.11.2025 17:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

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Thank you!

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I’m thrilled to be giving this year’s Kelmscott Lecture, the annual lecture hosted by the William Morris Society. I’m excited to be dipping my toe into the world of the Arts and Crafts movement. Join us in person or online! Tickets are here: williammorrissociety.org/events/the-k...

12.11.2025 18:24 👍 51 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

Thank you!

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Autumn really brings the best views from my window at work. Here’s yesterday’s view and today’s 🌈

21.10.2025 17:05 👍 47 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Nikki!

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

21.10.2025 16:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

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Thanks!

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Thank you!

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Thanks so much!

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Thank you!

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Thanks!

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

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Popping in to say I’m writing a book! And St. Martin’s and @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social are publishing it! I’m very excited! Extra big thanks to Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn!

16.10.2025 19:07 👍 65 🔁 8 💬 11 📌 2

Woohoo! Please join me!

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I thiiiiiink it's a series of slips appliqued onto the ground fabric along the line of double running so as to not be visible but this was a surprise reveal during a class I was teaching so I didn't get a chance to look closely!

23.09.2025 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best thing ever from the V&A stores today: on the front of Margret Mason’s 1660 sampler are clothed “boxer” figures (little men holding gifts, acorns here). Turn the sampler over and the men look much the same but are completely naked!

23.09.2025 17:51 👍 64 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 2
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Last year I identified a third circa 1650-75 embroidered cabinet made at the Perwich school, one of 17th-century Hackney's major girls' schools. This example is owned by Doncaster Heritage and the others are in LACMA & the Fitzwilliam. My article about the find is in this issue of Hackney History!

20.08.2025 18:44 👍 48 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Woohoo! Thanks so much for signing up!

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