Category: interesting reading

The FIDM blog has a post today about a collection they are trying to acquire, and it includes a photo of a c. 1775 court dress associate with Marie Antoinette.  Not the BEST of photos, but still really interesting!

I just discovered that the Claremont Colleges Digital Library has a decent fashion plate collection.  Mostly 19th century.  Have a look!

Duran Textiles is a company in Sweden making stunning 18th century textile reproductions.  Their newsletter comes out every few months and is always an interesting read — the latest issue has a lovely reproduction of an 18th century Banyan, and here’s a nice article on the pouf hairstyle (I’m interested to note they use styrofoam as the base for their reproduction wigs!).  Their pictures do a nice job of featuring their fabrics, but an even better job of providing inspiration for dresses, hair, makeup, accessories, etc.  Renaissance Fabrics carries a few of their fabrics, as does William Booth Draper.  I really, really want this embroidered silk…  on the off chance the fabric fairy is reading this!