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vincentbriggs · 11 months
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Here are some (not very good) photos of me wearing it! I'll have to get some better ones at my parents house later, because there is absolutely no good space to take photos in my apartment. I don't have any other 1830's things to go with it, and don't currently have plans to make any. I just wanted this dressing gown specifically.
Anyways! There are 6,957 triangles, all sewn together by machine, but most of the actual garment construction is by hand. The unevenness from all the patchwork seam allowances made it very fussy, and the tailoring took at least twice as long as it would have in a normal fabric. The velvet was also a challenge, being the soft drapey wobbly kind, but I managed. I accidentally made my triangles a bit smaller than the ones on the original (C. 1835, Powerhouse Museum collection.) which means there are more triangles than there had to be, but that's ok. I really enjoyed doing the patchwork, it's the most wonderfully soothing brainless task ever and I will definitely make more patchwork things.
I'm very happy with how it turned out! It's comfortable and fits pretty well, and is warm but not excessively so.
I kept timesheets for everything, and I haven't added them up yet, but once I do I'll know exactly how long all of this took.
I also filmed it, but the youtube video won't be out for quite a while, because I still have to write and record some more stuff and then edit a very very very very large amount of clips.
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• Bracelet.
Place of origin: Germany
Date: 1830's
Medium: Cast iron and steel
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heaveninawildflower · 1 month
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Pictorial quilt (1832) by Euphemia Kichlein (aged 14) who was possibly helped by her mother, Christina Schleifer Kichlein.
Cotton, wool and silk.
Made in Buck's County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Images and text information courtesy The Met.
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fripperiesandfobs · 11 months
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Evening dress ca. 1830-35
From the Museum of Vancouver
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atropos-moth · 2 years
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1830's hair styles that need to come back into fashion immediately
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swedish-songs · 11 months
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This Friday, the 30th of May, is Walpurgis Night! (Valborgsmässoafton, or simply Valborg, in Swedish). Walpurgis Night is celebrated in several European countries. It is a celebration of Saint Walpurga, but in Sweden it is, before anything else, a celebration of the arrival of spring. It is traditionally celebrated by gathering around huge bonfires. At the oldest universities in Sweden, a lot of more or less local Valborg traditions take place.
One tradition is that the student choirs gather before the bonfire is lit to sing songs celebrating spring. Längtan till landet, (longing for the countryside), is perhaps the most iconic one. It was written as a poem in 1838 by Herman Sätherberg, and arranged for a male choir in 1839 by Otto Lindblad. The song is often referred to by it's initial lyrics, "Vintern rasat" (Winter has been raging). The lyrics describe the snow melting away, to give way to spring and summer.
Although the song is traditionally sung by a male choir, here is an example of a version with a female student choir from the university of Lund, one of the oldest in Europe. The singers are, as is customary, wearing their student caps from their graduation from gymnasiet.
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theshatterednotes · 1 year
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Brazilian author Machado de Assis
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laescrituradesatada · 2 years
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Honoré de Balzac | Eugenia Grandet, 1833
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melbmemories · 2 years
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One of Melbourne’s two founders, John Pascoe Fawkner, pictured in Melbourne in an unknown year.
 In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip and up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne.
He was born near Cripplegate, London in 1792 to John Fawkner (a metal refiner) and his wife Hannah née Pascoe, whose parents were Cornish. As a 10-year-old, he accompanied his convict father, who had been sentenced to fourteen years gaol for receiving stolen goods, when he was transported on HMS Calcutta,alongside his mother and younger sister Elizabeth, as part of a two ship fleet to establish a new British colony on the northern coast of Bass Strait in 1803.
For several months the colony struggled to survive. There were some 27 convict escape attempts, including that of the well-known William Buckley. Finally, Lieutenant-Governor, David Collins, was persuaded to abandon the colony in 1804 with the settlers and convicts departing for the new town of Hobart, in Van Diemen's Land.
In December, 1819, transported convict, Eliza Cobb, and John Pascoe Fawkner loaded up a cart and moved north to Launceston. They were married on 5 December, 1822, with a permit from Governor George Arthur. They established a bakery, timber business, bookshop, a newspaper The Launceston Advertiser in 1829, nursery and an orchard. Then, reading of reports back from the Hentys at Portland and Charles Sturt’s journeys further north and the good country to be found, encouraged Fawkner's resolve to head to Port Phillip and search for a suitable settlement site.
In April 1835, he purchased the topsail schooner, Enterprize, and headed across Bass Strait. John Batman had already led an exploring party to Port Phillip District in May 1835, on board the schooner, Rebecca, and had explored a large area in what is now the northern suburbs of Melbourne, as far north as Keilor, and saw it as ideal country for a sheep run, before returning to Launceston.
Fawkner, his wife and partners arrived in the Port Phillip District, on Friday, 16 October 1835, on the second trip of the Enterprize. Later, after Hoddle had surveyed the future city, Fawkner was active in the first land sales. On 1 June, 1837 he bought the No 1 Block on the corner of Bourke and William Street for £32 and another on the corner of Market and Flinders streets. He lived in the home he built in Bourke Street. He opened the first hotel on the corner of Market Street and Flinders Lane. He played a central role in the early newspaper scene of Melbourne, publishing two of the first papers. Fawkner acquired a property in 1839 as one of eleven lots in the subdivision of the Coburg district by the government, in the present day Pascoe Vale.
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fauvester · 8 months
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putting all my st fashion plates (so far!) together
newly inspired to keep going… perhaps bajorans next…
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hoopskirtsociety · 2 years
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Fashion Plate ca.1837
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suddenly-frankenstein · 3 months
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young Crozier and Ross spending their Christmas Eve somewhere at home.
happy holidays, y'all!!
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heaveninawildflower · 5 months
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'Halloween' (British, 1830's) by Alexander Barron.
Mezzotint print made by Edward Radclyffe.
'Young men and women gathered around a table, one girl standing blind-folded in front of three dishes, one empty, one filled with clean water and the third with dirty about to put her hand in one.'
© The Trustees of the British Museum.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
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fripperiesandfobs · 1 year
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Dress ca. 1830
From Kerry Taylor Auctions
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atropos-moth · 2 years
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A lady at her toilette, by Natale Schiavoni (1777-1858)
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euqinim0dart · 2 years
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The Beagle
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