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We're honored to announce a record $25 million endowment gift to our museum from an anonymous donor. This transformative gift guarantees long-term support for textile conservation, curatorial scholarship and educational initiatives. Read more at museum.gwu.edu/george-washing…

Ooh, this looks good!!

#Fashionhistory and textile scholars! Thinking of applying for #textiles or #dresshistory research funding next year? Get prepared, and find out about the wide range of grants available to all #textilehistory researchers from the Pasold Fund: pasold.co.uk/index

Excited to announce that Hannah Prescott, PhD Candidate at UMD, is our 2nd Kress fellow for this academic year! She'll be working on 18th century textile cargoes of the Middleburgse Commercie Compagnie arthistory.umd.edu/directory/hann… Thanks also to @KressFdn for support

‘Repair is the new cool’: how Amsterdam started a fashion revolution theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Wish we could join!!!

From the study of the original remainings of the mantua I realized that the silk brocade used was once’s also supported with interlayers. In order to get the right feeling with our new mantua, we have tried recreating this by the addition of different interlayers as well.

Back in 1692, obscure Dutch artist A Boogert produced a one-off, hand-painted, 900 page catalogue of every conceivable colour, complete with handwritten, detailed advice to artists on how to create them. Now available online, see openculture.com/2019/10/a-900-…

Fabric of Democracy Fashion and Textile Museum explores textiles as ‘highly charged political objects’ - from the French Revolution to Brexit. We caught up with exhibition curator Amber Butchart to find out more about Blitz dresses, Communist bedspreads, & Brexit tea towels (1/2)

Very nice excited and proud to share that we have won the The Renaissance Society of America Digital Innovation prize!!!

Funded PhD opportunity with the wonderful Suzanna Ivanic 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine AND ME!!! Are you interested in craft, making, knowledge and belief? Do you know someone who could be? #earlymodern #twitterstorians please spread the word.... komldsp.org.uk/projects/craft…

So cool to see these opened up 200 years later! And excited to see those stockings— the Dutch were shipping hundreds of pairs of stockings (kousen) to Asian ports annually in the late 1700s…

We’re excited to share a new app to explore trade textiles! Hoping to publish very soon - watch this space!!!

And it's LIVE!!! With our new Swatch Search, you can explore our collection of #textiles swatches (and a few larger items), either by historic textile name (if they were labeled) or by attributes like color, pattern, process, weave structure, and fiber. dutchtextiletrade.org/projects/swatc…

Marsely will be presenting a case study from our project. Register to get the link!

I’m so thrilled to share a new entry in our Visual Textile Glossary for lijnwaad (or #linen), authored by our amazing #Kress fellow, Hannah Prescott: dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/lijnw…

When is a stripe not JUST a stripe? See Hannah’s latest entry on ‘Streep’ (English: stripe), a specific textile carried on Dutch trading ships: dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/stree… #textiles #WIC #voc