Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".
Programme:
📸 Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
📸 Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
📸 Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes
Current #needlework is a bus pass holder pendant tag, worked while listening to Pride and Prejudice being read across the parlor. Yesterday's surprise: Lydia induces one of the handsome militiamen to dress up like one of her girlfriends. Today's: Pemberley's vast tracts of land and naturally favorable aspect dwelt upon at great length until Lizzie starts falling in love with the estate.
Termine el primer módulo del diplomado 🫶🏻✨. Y al final la lavanda se convirtió en un bonito bolsito, aún no se en que convertir el bordado de la manzanilla 🤔.
Da ich zu Ostern Eier meide und der Mann keine hart gekochten Eier mag, ich ihn aber mit etwas österlichem überraschen möchte, dachte ich mir dass ich einen Eierwärmer häkle.
“A mended garment is a little piece of artwork that you wear around all day, on display like a living gallery wall, eliciting comments, starting conversations, an opening sentence to a good story.”
― Nina and Sonya Montenegro, Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts