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 🎄

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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!

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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

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