Went to hemp mill De Paauw in #Assendelft today. It was absolutely wonderful thanks to the volunteers working with the mill and telling all about it. Most practical knowledge of how to make cloth from hemp has vanished. So basically they are doing research by trial and error. An excellent start of Tour de Fleece.
#HandSpinning #TextileHistory #WindMills #TourDeFleece
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The next At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed online event is coming up! Sunday, June 29 is all about "Textiles from Ulster, Ireland, c.1830-1914"! 
Speakers:
Valerie Wilson - Berlin Wool Work: charting Needlework History in the Nineteenth Century Lynn Hulse - Art Embroidery and the Celtic Revival in Ireland Fiona McKelvie - Irish Linen: an International Success Story
Read more and register for free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-29-june-2025-200pm-bst-tickets-1379592170319?
#DressHistory #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #19thCentury #History #Ireland #Needlework @historikerinnen @histodons
EventbriteAt Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed - 29 June 2025 - 2.00pm BSTOur June ‘At home’ will explore dress and textiles originating from or made in the province of Ulster in the long nineteenth century.
A very sad, heartbreaking story - I've never before heard of those forced sterilisations. I knew that Fujimori was a monster, but this detail member made it into the mainstream in Germany.
‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/23/its-the-first-time-ive-woven-in-27-years-peruvian-women-revive-arts-lost-to-trauma-of-forced-sterilisations
The Guardian · ‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations
I think I'm rather happy that modern clothing is a bit less fussy - dealing with that amount of pins each morning ...
Why did Georgian dresses cost as much as a townhouse?! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnjj1ZluP0
Textile boots from the 12th century offer a glimpse into the social hierarchy of their time, blending luxury fabrics and intricate patterns. How do you think such artworks reflect the cultural connections of the Silk Road?
#ClevelandArt #SilkRoad #TextileHistory
https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.349
Soon I will be attending a webb seminar on traditional knitting in Halland, a county in the southwest of Sweden.
#knitting #KnittingHistory #textilehistory
Excerperat bouppteckningar och fört in allt textil- och dräkt relaterat i kalkylark . Den senaste, från Långe Larsgården i Sparlösa 1791 hade 136 klädesplagg, 17 olika textilredskap och 22 poster med olika tyger, garn, hemvävda band och häcklat lin. Pust.
#skaraborg #folkdrakt #1700talshistoria #18thcentury #textilehistory
Save the date, Dress History friends, for another "At Home with C19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" online event on Sunday, May 25!
"This themed session focuses on the development of the chemisette, the male shirt and the blouse in relation to themes of innovation, consumption, manufacture and the historic display of classed and gendered bodies. All welcome!"
Speakers:
Hilary Davidson - When is a Chemisette a Chemisette? John Finkelberg - Inventing Modern Masculinity and the White Shirt Suzanne Rowland - Unpacking the fashionable 'Edwardian' Blouse
Read more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-25th-may-2025-300pm-bst-tickets-1304085698429?aff=oddtdtcreator
#DressHistory #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #19thCentury #Edwardian #GenderStudies #History @historikerinnen @histodons
EventbriteAt Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed - 25th May 2025 - 3.00pm BSTJoin us for this special themed session focusing on the development of the chemisette, the shirt and the blouse!
This stunning Textile Fragment from the Moche civilization tells a story of resilience amidst natural disaster. The intricate motifs weave mythology with artistry, reflecting the cultural richness of ancient Peru. What secrets do you think this piece holds?
#MocheArt #TextileHistory #ClevelandArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.2.6
I already boosted this video yesterday, when I'd only watched a few minutes.
But this is so, so much better than I thought. It's powerful, beautifully told and very sobering. Very US centric (because of course, Evie is from the US and because a lot of the current problems are because of what's going on over there).
Yarn and textile is the vehicle, but it's about so much more.
"Explaining tarrifs with a textile history lesson" - JillianEve
Cool West African raffia cloth belonging to Dr. Cecilia Candreus at Uppsala University. I went to a seminar at the History Department there for a presentation about West African raffia cloth and other objects in royal collections in the 17th century.
Some of my favourite subjects: textiles, African history, and the Early Modern period.
#africanhistory #textilehistory #earlymodernhistory
Today I am visiting Textile studies at Uppsala University. Going to meet up with other textile/clothing/fashion historians
https://www.uu.se/en/study/subject/textile-studies
#fashionhistory #textilehistory #DressHistory
www.uu.seTextile Studies
- Uppsala University
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Read the alt texts of the photos above about the #yarn's history. Here you can learn more about the history of this "more glossy than silk" patent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon
This #emboidery #floss was a hype since 1905/1910 ... and we can imagine that some of the governesses who had the misfortune to be on board, used it for #embroideries in the luxury rooms of the #Titanic.
en.wikipedia.orgRayon - Wikipedia
I was at this #GatherFiberSymposium event yesterday, and we all yearned to be at the protest. But I will say that hanging with artists was really good for my soul. Artists are taking no shit.
Anyway: so many great events coming this month if you like textile arts. And our #IpswichLace event made the #Boston Globe today.
The #GatherFiberSymposium got noticed by the local media! We were psyched that they invited our lace group in to their month of fiber art celebrations. There are a ton of great events going on.
More details from The Boston Globe (or search archive.youknow for an unpaywalled version).
#BobbinLace #Textiles #knitting #sewing #crafts #makers #TextileHistory
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/arts/gather-2025-fiber-textile-art-symposium-greater-boston/
The Boston Globe · Gather 2025 explores fiber arts in Greater Boston
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I've tried fatter linen (60/2) and finer linen (90/2). The 90/2 looks closer, and you can see I also tried that with a heavy outline thread (we call that gimp, sorry--I know).
But the pinholes were bothering me. I can get rid of them with some pulling on the lace in all directions. I assume that would be like a washed item might be treated? And why the pinholes aren't apparent in the museum one.
Anyway, more testing to do. But am getting closer, I think.
#WIPWednesday and my experiments in reproduction lace continue.
I'm trying to replicate the lace from this baby cap in the MFA #Boston. but I don't know how wide it actually is. So I'm testing out some versions.
1/2
Had a great afternoon listening to professor dr Holger Weiss talk about new research about raw cotton import to Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th century.
Lots of Levantine cotton.
Which is the kind that I have been mostly interested in, since I study cotton in the North in the medieval and early modern period, when the cotton used was mostly grown in the Mediterranean region
#textilehistory #cotton #earlymodernhistory
Continuing transcribing the parts containing women's clothing in probate inventories from rural Skaraborg (a region in SW Sweden) in the 18th and early 19th century. It is both tiresome AND fun.
#DressHistory #consumerhistory #bouppteckningar #textilehistory