#old textiles

[halljavalge]

Source: tidningenlantliv

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ

#old textiles #linen fabric #pastels

[fashion-from-the-past]

#historical fashion #historical #fashion #history #historical clothing #historical dress #long dress #victorian #victorian era #textiles #victorian fashion #old fashioned #dresses #dress #19th century fashion #19th century #ball gown #gown #evening gown #victorian history #victorian dress

[othmeralia]

Italian Dyer's Notebook

Autograph manuscript, circa 1856-1866

This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866, suggesting that the notebook was used and added to over a period of time. The work includes more than 500 numbered and itemized recipes for dyes. Recipes are illustrated with more than 800 wool and fabric samples adhered to the pages. The samples range in colors from shades of brown to vivid fuchsia, turquoise, and mustard. The samples include fabrics of wool, felt, and cotton, as well as raw wool and coils of yarn. Ingredients listed include mud, urine, arsenic, and vitriol. Pages 192-219 contain longer descriptions of dying processes, one attributed to Giacomo Udinese and another to Cesare Bizzi.

Check it out on our digital collections site.

#colors #colors in textiles #colorfastness #dyes #dyes and dyeing #textiles #wool #italian manuscripts #manuscripts #rare books #old books #rare book #dye samples #19th century #othmeralia

[umabloomer]

Kewpie quilt, 1916

https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/quilt/20210210012

#textiles #quilt #kewpie #i was today years old when i learned kewpie is short for cupid

[discountalien-pancake]

I just need everyone to understand that we have hardly any surviving intact garments from before, say, the 1700s. There’s dozens of reasons for this, but one of the big ones is that people reused the materials. Things were cut up and refashioned into new things, over and over, until the fabric was essentially just rags, bc the labor required to weave cloth and stitch up a garment was intense. You would wear and wear and wear things until they were dead. This includes the elaborate garments of the upper classes.

And in the same way that today many people pick apart old things to cannibalize the buttons and trims and other salvageable bits, they did that too! No sense throwing away perfectly good buttons just because the shirt is shredded. Snip those off and sew them onto something new! We have lace cuffs that are incredibly old, but rarely the garments they were worn with, partly because lace was so fucking expensive you’d have to be insane to throw it out. You would save those and refashion them again and again as often as possible.

So what we know of medieval clothing has been learned from writings, often very vague, illustrations (also very vague), and other imagery like statues. We have bits and pieces of garments, often from funerary contexts, but the same context that prevented them from being chopped up and reused also made them susceptible to decomposing.

Which is all to say that we do not know the exact details of garment construction for any given period. We don’t even know all the ins and outs of the clothing of the 1800s, and we have hundreds of surviving pieces from that century!

Do we know how frequently and in which contexts hooks and eyes were used prior to the late 1400s? Not precisely, but we can make some good guesses based on artwork and later usage. But we may never really know, because guess what! Hooks and eyes are reusable. I guarantee they would have been snipped off of unusable clothing and sewn onto new pieces.

#tis a ramble im sorry #but i really need everyone to understand #how little we know about old timey clothing #pancake talks textiles

[saltedsnailstudio]

linocut prints on vintage doilies

#I got a bunch of doilies and handkercheifs from the local creative reuse store and they’ve been wicked fun to print old blocks on #printmaker #linoprint #block printing #printmaking #relief print #salted snail studio #reliefprint #lace doily #vintage textiles #creative reuse #linocut #linocut fabric #relief printed fabric #textile art

[uncanny-tranny]

If I'm honest, the whole "love in every stitch" saying for fiber artists does not apply to me, like. I'm trying to get this fucking hook into stubborn yarn and I'll be stabbing it like it owed me money. Is that love because I hope not 😭💀

#art #crochet #honestly the closest thing i feel to love when crocheting is this feeling that this is bigger than me if that makes sense... #...i think it'sthe feeling of knowing how old the craft itself is and knowing that millions of people have done the same as you... #...millions of people have stabbed their crochet hook into the yarn because it's stubborn but so are you... #...millions of people in the past have sat and devoted their time and effort into all of this... #...millions of people have passed on this knowledge and kept this thing alive... #...and it's the feeling of knowing that humans across millenia aren't THAT different #to our core we are more or less similar - across the ages across the colours across everything. that really comforts and humbles me #have you looked up ancient textiles? because that also sparks these emotions in me #it makes me think about the tupes of people to make the textile but also about who wore it #and so many of them are still beautiful and colourful and it shows you SO MUCH about the people who made them #even the ones that are tattered and faded and stripped of colour still feel beautiful... #...because it has SURVIVED. it is evidence of a people who made it and a people who had technical skills #and THIS is why i HATE HATE HATE the idea that ancient people were just 'dumb' and 'uneducated' #that is so unfair to them and cruel and just. wrong. (and often it reeks of white supremacy) #i'm sorry i rant and rave about this so much but i canNOT be normal about this. i can't be normal about humanity #i am learning to love humanity and learn about us and learn everything and it'll never be enough - i will never know enough #i will never know everything about everybody and it will be the death of me #okay the only thing i liked about the greatest showman movie was Never Enough because that is me thinking about all this

[elchampwon]

CHRISTMAS HAS PASSED SO HERES THE QUILT I MADE FOR MY PARTNER WHO LOVES PLANTS <33

This is still my 3rd quilt so I still have a lot to learn about using the machine but boy howdy was this lots of fun and I'm super proud of it. It's hand quilted and the weird shaped leaves and shrooms are applique.

#art #quilt #quilting #textile art #sewing #cottagecore #cozy #cozycore #grandmacore #plants #green #i am an old lady disguised as a young lad #catch me bird watching and quilting

[scandalousadventures]

Krampus doll 🎄 Hope you've been good this year!

#her codpiece (?) is from an old necklace and her bell is from a friend #christmas #krampus #dolls #ooak doll #handmade #creepy #textile art #sculpting #my art #my dolls

[theglassessay]

I finished quilt #3 and I’m rather proud of this one❣️

#textiles #i’m especially pleased with the stripy binding #made from two old dresses one old shirt some precious scraps of phoebe wahl fabric + other odds and ends from my stash ! #(​it’s for a friend’s baby! but there is another due in feb so i need to get to work on quilt no.4!!)

[gailyinthedark]

The word "defiled" being used specifically to describe knights trampled under the feet of horses in battle sent me down an etymological rabbithole. Apparently it comes from Medieval Latin fullare (to full), which stems in turn from fullo, an occupational word meaning "one who fulls".

Fulling is something I've experimented with quite a bit. It's the process of agitating wetted fabric, usually wool, in order to bind the fibres closer together, partially felting them and making the fabric heavier and thicker once it's dried. Scottish tartan material is fulled, and Vikings also fulled their outerwear to make it weather-repellent. When I was trying to recreate historical diapering methods with my daughter earlier this year, I made several fulled wool pilchers to help prevent leaks, which worked well.

Fullare seems to refer specifically to fulling fabric by stomping on it, a common method in ages past which draws quite an image for the poor fallen knights. Nowadays we tend to think of defiling as soiling or dirtying something rather than stomping on it; this is partly thanks to the influence of a similar-sounding Old English word, fulen ("to rot"), the ancestor of today's "foul".

I have to get my surgical staples out later today, which isn't fun, so I'm glad I've got some lovely new etymology to distract me.

#arthuriana #medieval literature #thomas malory #middle english #old english #latin #etymology #language #history #textile arts #when obsessions collide

[monikahmakes]

WIP, on about my sixth one of these in the past week. Hopefully destined to be part of a mixed media piece, but also, I just like making these, and the process is so absorbing. It's a good feeling, and a good distraction. I'm like a shark; I can't stop moving or I'll sink.

#fiber art #textile art #needlework #artists on tumblr #work in progress #wip #art #needleweaving #stitch #thread #lacemaking #I can't remember if that's true about sharks or just an old story

[fashion-from-the-past]

#historical fashion #fashion #historical #history #historical clothing #historical dress #long dress #textiles #dress #high fashion #old fashioned #victorian #19th century fashion #18th century fashion #1800 fashion #1700s fashion

[teddiecircus]

picture!

#project sekai #pjsekai #prsk #minori hanasato #hanasato minori #haruka kiritani #kiritani haruka #airi momoi #momoi airi #shizuku hinomori #hinomori shizuku #more more jump #mmj #this is kinda old (august) but i still like it a bit so take it #the jumpers the sillies #Tatsumi Textiles discount coupon #id in alt

[jayswing101]

March 2024 - Dali, Yunnan province, China

One of the coolest things we did was learn about Bai style tie-dyeing (bottom two pictures)

#im so glad we did go back and do the tie dyeing esp bc i now have a really cool and special tshirt we all made together #not pictured: the over 2kg of tea I bought at a shop in the old town and had to have shipped back to shanghai #bc it wouldn't fit in the bag jiejie and i were sharing #also our bag was heavy enough it did not need 2 extra kilos of tea aakfkkd #its good tea tho and i have 0 regrets about it. in fact. 10/10 would do again akfakfkfk #also not pictured - all the delicious and wonderful food we got to try and enjoy #like i knew yunnan was known for having good food but like. i was not prepared for how good it was #dali #yunnan #china #photography #textile art

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

damn if only there was a way to find out...

#im looking at an old book about textile patterns of the 'Indians of Mexico' #some of its funny because like. shit like this. #where white people believe native people to be some mythical other that they can never truly know about #and can only speculate on them