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…

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…

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

Absolutely fascinating detective work highlighting the threat of fraud that regularly occurred in early modern thread dyeing!

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)

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-…

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.

Wish we could join!!!

‘The missing link’: is textile recycling the answer to fashion’s waste crisis? theguardian.com/fashion/2023/o…

❓️Wat heeft katoenen stof uit India met Oostende te maken? Ontdek het rijke maritieme verleden van Stad Oostende
➡️ expo '300 jaar Oostendse Compagnie: hoe Oostende een wereldhaven werd'
📅 vanaf 1-11-23
📍Stadsmuseum Oostende
👉 oostendsecompagnie.wordpress.com

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

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

#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

Church archives in Indonesia and the Netherlands to be digitised to help historical studies asianews.it/news-en/Church… via AsiaNews

Ooh, this looks good!!

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…

Stages in the making of #batik . Apply wax, dye, boil away wax, re-wax, re-dye, boil away wax = cloth resist-dyed in two colors with areas of white reserved cloth showing through #MuseumTekstilJakarta

An exciting find in this letter from 1855: fabric swatches, bright as the day they were enclosed.