jdmccaffertyEmbroidery with the Annunciation
mid-15th century
Netherlandish
(Met Museum)
Isabella Rosner
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Textile historian specialising in embroidery of the past 🪡 PhDing at King's College London, Quaker women's needlework & wax/shellwork, 1650-1800 | hosting the Sew What? podcast | working in museums and the private art market | she/her
Jill NI’ve been enjoying the old school bird site vibe here, particularly the community of historians. I recently came across this beautiful brooch, circa 1900 by Robert Koch (source: https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-an-art-nouveau-enamel-and-gem-set-pendantbrooch). Given the time frame and the name, I was curious about the creator. I wasn’t able to find much.Short thread follows. Caveat: IANAH (is that a thing? Like IANAD?). #histodon #histodons 1/7
Vagina MuseumOLD THREAD REPOST #WorldAIDSDay
On October 11th 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed. The Quilt is a community project to memorialise those lost to the epidemic. When it was first displayed, the Quilt had 1,920 panels dedicated to 1,920 lives lost.
Image courtesy of Names Project Foundation
It's December 1st, so I'm feeling Christmassy (despite being Jewish)! This French c. 1770 Robe à la Française sold by Cora Ginsburg a few years ago always gets me in the holiday spirit 🎄
#history #fashion #historicdress #fashionhistory #18thcentury
I'm writing a short article about the wax and shellwork shadow boxes I'm looking at in the second half of my PhD thesis and it's so nice to write about them because I get to write about these lads, who look like thumbs with smiley faces. Such jolly little gentlemen!
#histodons #materialculture #wax #waxwork #quaker #18thcentury #philadelphia
JuliaI just saw this 1830s dress in Rebecca Unsworth's talk about the Birmingham Museum and wanted to share it here. Pretty. 🌼
#DressHistory #19thCentury #Histodons #MaterialCulture #Museum
Happy Saturday! Here are two of my favourite 17th-century beadwork baskets, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The one on the left shows King Charles II and Catherine of Braganza with allegories of the four continents. The one on the right, which shows a courting couple, was worked by Sarah Gurnall in 1659. Most surviving beadwork from the period lacks names and dates.
#textile #beadwork #earlymodern #history #needlework #materialculture
Caroline Elenowitz-HessSpending my Thursday night thinking about these late-16th/ early-17th century gloves from The Glove Collection Trust: https://theglovecollection.uk/gloves/gct-23342/
Phoenixes! Pears! Pansies! Weird little mask faces! They really have it all.
GCT 23342 - The Glove Collection Trust
A pair of menswear zig-zag tabbed gauntlet gloves, in dyed buff-coloured leather with applied panels of silk embroidered in a design of fruit and flower-heads, a Phoenix rising from the Ashes, and a masked face worked in coloured silks and metal threads, edged with long metal thread fringing.
Hello! I'm an art historian who studies material culture, specifically historical needlework. I specialise in the study of schoolgirl samplers and domestic embroidery, circa 1600-1900.
I'm in my final year of my PhD at King's College London, where I research Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork before 1800. I also run a podcast called Sew What?, all about historic needlework and those who stitched it.
Expect lots of lovely images of embroidery! #histodon #embroidery #needlework #textile