An article about 18th century printed cottons that I recently wrote for the Greater Bay Area Costumer’s Guild’s newsletter has been just been put online. When I first started thinking about my 1780s robe a l’anglaise project I briefly entertained the idea of buying some $20/yd repro printed cotton, but luckily sanity prevailed — this is the result of my research when I was trying to find out what would be passably authentic and what wouldn’t!