Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Below the knee: pattens, shoes and hose - the MEDATS (Medieval Dress and Textile Society) summer meeting at the British Museum.

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Figure 1 - Piece of sprang relaxed What follows are my notes on what was said for four of the six papers given at the study day. I will ...
Friday, 21 June 2013

Pins in the Early Modern Period

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Close up of the head of a 16th century gold pin in the Portable Antiquities Database The word pin, as in the Oxford English Dictionary ...
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Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Muckinder or muckender

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Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford, with her son Edward, c.1563 Muckinder is a wonderful word for what was basically a cloth to...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

The Calais Museum of Lace and Fashion

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 Late 16th century lace I spent last weekend in France and made a visit to the excellent Calais museum on the history of lace, t...
Monday, 13 May 2013

Small sewing kits

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Figure 1  Two different terms are sometimes used for small sewing kits. The housewife or hussif is usually seen as a cloth contain...
Thursday, 2 May 2013

Edmund Harrison (1591-1667) – the King’s embroiderer

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 One of Harrison's pictures now in the National Museums of Scotland click to see further information from the museum site ...
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Sunday, 28 April 2013

Shoehorns by Robert Mindum (active 1593-1612)

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 Shoehorn by Robert Mindum in the Museum of Design in Plastics Shoehorns are something I had never really thought about until I we...