Sunday, 18 November 2012

West of England Costume Society meeting, November 2012

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Next year WECS is 40 so in celebration the society has decided to do a second round of something it did for its 25 th . Enter Patterns o...
Monday, 12 November 2012

Exhibition review – The Lost Prince, Henry 1594-1612

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The book and other related items are available from the National Portrait Gallery Shop I recently visited the National Portrait Gallery...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Jenny Tirimani – On late 15th and early 16th century linen smock and shirts, evolutions in cut.

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This is the last in my series of notes from talks given at:   Well worn weeds: the MEDATS (Medieval Dress and Textile Society) meeting a...
Monday, 29 October 2012

Susan North - The necessity of clean linen

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Susan started by saying that there is a profound insistence that the past was dirty, and that one needs to throw out modern judgmental com...
Sunday, 28 October 2012

Beatrix Nutz – All indecent!: 15th century linen underwear from Lengberg castle, East Tyrol, Austria (Updated)

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I said when I first published this that it was taken from my notes of Beatrix Nutz talk. Beatrix has been kind enough to feed back to me th...

Jane Bridgeman – Machiavelli’s Linens: some linens in 15th century Florence

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Ghirlandaio - Lucrezia Tornabuoni This was a talk based on a diary/account book kept by Niccolo Machiavelli’s father Bernado around 14...

Well worn weeds: underclothes, linens and vegetable fibres worn next to the body.

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The MEDATS (Medieval Dress and Textile Society) meeting at the British Museum 27 th October 2012. This will be a series of blog post...