Costume Historian

For anyone with an interest in the history of clothing, dress, textiles, lace and embroidery, paricularly of the early modern period, 1550-1750

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Showing posts with label costume. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Seventeenth century clothing at Platt Hall Gallery of Costume, Manchester

Figure 1 - Collar from the 1630s At the weekend I visited Platt Hall for the first time, I had never been to Manchester before ...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Dummy boards of c.1620

On Saturday I went to Hinton Ampner House where I saw two lovely 1620s dummy boards of children. Dummy boards, also known as silent compan...

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Hollar Digital Collection from Toronto

When it comes to looking at the clothing of women in the mid 17th century the engravings of Wenceslas Hollar (1607-1677) are invaluable. I a...

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