Jean Shrimpton window shopping on the Edgware Road in 1960, photo by Brian Duffy.

Happy #NationalTextilesDay
There is surely no finer piece of textile painted than our gorgeous 'The Fair-Isle Jumper' by Stanley Cursiter from the City Art Centre.
art #artist #painting #textiles

Say what you like about Sex and the City there are some great lines in it. 'You are knock knock knocking on sad gal door.'

'Crossing the Street' (1925-28) by Mabel Frances Layng

(The Shire Hall Gallery)

Mourning clothes in books! The rules are strict and complex, though the main one is that if a female character is thinking about how well black suits her, then she is not to be trusted. Plus mourning in white. Blogpost with (of course) pictures clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2024/05/mourni…

What it was to be a portrait painter in the age of lace and ruffs: Michiel van Mierevelt's portrait of a ruff, 1628. And incidentally, of the woman wearing it.

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is women in photography, so we've chosen to share an image from our photography collection of a worker at #Horrocks in Preston. The firm commissioned photographic prints to illustrate the stages of cotton production. 👗

Art UK

We have now secured some funds from 18th Century Studies to provide a small number of bursaries to help PGRs and ECRs participate in this event! Send your proposals to [email protected] by 1 June 2024!

At last it is spring in Sweden. Cherry blossoms. Scene from GREZ 1884, Bruno Liljefors (1860 – 1939)

Viking Ship, Edward Burne-Jones, The Delaware Art Museum

Knight riding a swan. Masquerade costume designed by Francesco Primaticcio, whose day was today.

Iris, Hodge Lane, Salford 1950s. Photo by George Shepherd. British Culture Archive

The late historian Eric Hobsbawm recalls the origins of May Day, the ‘dent’ made by workers in the calendar of gods and kings.
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#Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival marking the beginning of #summer
'Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

Merry, Merry Month of May..
#LaBelleJardiniere 1896 #EugeneGrasset #May1

'The Red Shoes', by Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrated by Honor Charlotte Appleton
Published by Thomas Nelson London, 1922

Oof. It's kicking off in the Humanities & Social Sciences building...

Highly recommend entire thread.

Jean Shrimpton in pale pink crêpe de chine evening dress with a gold and ruby bar-clip by Christian Dior. Photo by Iriving Penn used for cover of Vogue US, November 1, 1963

She's in someone's locket (1940's)