✨💕🧵 Very excited to be joining The Northern Society of Costume and Texiles TOMORROW, to explore the Utility Clothing Scheme! 🧵💕✨ Do join The Northern Society of Costume and Textiles for what promises to be a lovely day of dress history! For more information and tickets, see the Society's website! 🌞

Fans and followers of #TheLadysMagazine project will remember similar #embroidery patterns and may have worked some of them. This hand-painted folder in the museum stores safely guards a collection of printed #pattern pages as well as hand-drawn designs prob 1815-30

✨💕🧵 THE most beautiful day with The Northern Society of Costume and Textiles🧵💕✨ Yesterday, I was invited to present my research on CC41! Thank you The Northern Society of Costume and Texiles for such a wonderful day. Everything you do is absolute magic - it was so wonderful to meet you all! 🥰

📣Job opportunity. We are recruiting at The National Archives for a Northern Ireland Records Researcher. If you are interested, the job advert can be found here: shorturl.at/mDEZ9 Deadline for applications: 1st June

A visit to the Turkey Red archive… not all Turkey Red is red!

What a powerhouse of a woman. Here Tina Turner in silver sequins, designed by Shirley Russell for the 1975 movie Tommy. May she sparkle in the heavens V&A #RIP

Long before Lanvin made mother/daughter dressing fashionable, it was economical to buy longer lengths of fabric from which to make multiple gowns. These two are rare survivals, #1820s printed cottons sold via #coraginsburg #fashionhistory

✨📚 THE most glorious day yesterday University of Leeds 2023 School of Design PhD symposium! 📚✨ What a supportive space, filled with the most beautiful individuals carrying out such important research! Thank you to everyone for making the day so special. My heart is SO full! 🥰

Archery ensemble, 1820s. FIDM Museum.

Evening dress, late 1850s. Kerry Taylor Auctions.

Did you know the Foundling Hospital archives house the most extensive collection of textiles used by working-class people in the eighteenth century? The source of this collection is – you guessed it – the tokens.

I have shared this before for its sheer wonderful-ness but what cheerier ensemble could better brighten a gloomy Sunday. At some point in the mid #1890s this bold belle whizzed around her neighbourhood cycling top to toe in chrysanthemum cotton FIDM Museum #fashionhistory

Forthcoming Book Launch! Join me as I reveal my life on #FairIsle, including the people, traditions, and island dynamics. For more info, visit KnittingJenny.com #knitting #shetlandknitting #fairisleknitting #fairisleknit #knit #textilehistory #dresshistory #fashionhistory

Bodice, 1890s. John Bright Collection.

Hugest congratulations to Stephanie Richards on latest publication! As always, an amazing piece - so exciting! 🥳 A joy to contribute a few words 🥰

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens. Photographed in 1896.

✨️💕🙏 So excited to contribute interpretation text (& loan objects!) to 'The Teardrop Explodes: A Paisley Pattern Exhibition'! The exhibition will bring together history, art, textiles, & community projects. 1st May - end June 2024, The Art Department, Paisley, Scotland!