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

Friday, 29 January 2016

Women’s Hoods 1600-1690

Fig 1 From Hollar's Ornatus In the first half of the seventeenth century the main linen headwear for women was the coif. The ...

Friday, 15 January 2016

The decline and fall of frieze and russet?

Frieze and russet appear to be two of the main fabrics for the outer clothing of the generality of lower classes in the sixteenth cen...

Monday, 21 December 2015

The Gunnister Man Project

From the Shetland Museums leaflet (3) Last month I attended the Knitting History Forum conference, and one of the speakers was D...

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