#haberdashery

[jettkuso]

Real observations since I started wearing a wizard hat daily:

- Brim is so wide that I stay BONE DRY taking walks in the rain

- Brim can be positioned to block the sun from ever getting in my eyes AND keeping it off the back of my neck

- The pointed top part creates an air pocket, keeping my head from getting hot or squishing my hair as it might in a ball cap

- Hat can easily be pulled down over the tips of my ears without looking dumb, protecting them from wind chill

- Strangers say they like my hat, giving me the chance to tell them that I am a wizard

- When you’re wearing a wizard hat, ALL OTHER FASHION CHOICES become secondary, allowing you to branch out with style

Embrace ego death. Stay protected from all elements. Wear a wizard hat.

#wizardcore #wizardposting #wizards #hats #haberdashery

[dancyrilkingston]

Bear sewing caddies and spool holders (c. 1880’s)

#bear #sewing #sewing accessories #needlework #haberdashery #sewing caddy #spool holder #spool #boo boo

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

When I started choosing embroidery patterns for my store, I was really focused on relatively small, simple designs. Things that would be quick and easy for beginners. But honestly... I think I underestimated just how easy the printed interfacing would be, since it's the needlework version of completing a dot-to-dot patterns. They take time, but none of the constant counting and ripping stitches out.

So that meant I've started to get ambitious. Little designs are still great, but what about a few designs that are dazzling from the other side of the room? As a treat?

Maybe just one of Giovanni Ostaus's shirt opening border designs from 1561?

Some fancy chickens and um... tulips? pomegranates? water fountains?

And just for me, a pattern you won't find in any history book, a little confection I made that I like to call: "Strawberry Fieldmice Forever"

That's only like, half of them. I just dumped a whole bunch onto my Etsy.

Interested?

Beginner-friendly historical and fantasy embroidery patterns, right this way!

#haberdashery #crass commercialism #I'm even having a Month of Darkness sale! #yes that's right we're giving up the pretense of Black Friday and calling November what it is.

[thehaberdasheress]

Valentine's Day for embroidery nerds

Something I love about historical embroidery is how much the present and the past are stitched together. Valentine's Day is one of those things that's centuries old, but still a little new and fresh every time it rolls around. It is what we put into it, as well as what it used to be.

I print patterns onto interfacing that sticks to the fabric while you stitch. Then when you're done, you just dunk it in water to wash the pattern off!

So here are my new festive offerings:

Visible mending patches: Hearts I and Hearts II

I couldn't decide on one, so why not both? These are great if you want an easy way to embroider little wee hearts on things! They really shine when they're used for visible mending. You can use them to attach new patches to holes in old clothes, and look good doing it.

Embroidery Border: Lovebirds High

I wanted something big and fun, so I designed this one myself. Its figurative grandparents are Renaissance blackwork and Scandinavian Rosemaling. I liked being able to combine an existing embroidery border into a bigger pattern. 7.5 cm (3") wide and 16" (40cm) long.

Embroidery Border: Lovebirds Low

Another original design! I've been making a lot of birds lately. To me these feel like office-worker sparrows that have stopped to kvetch together on a window ledge during their seed break. Love... is on the staff meeting agenda. 1 ¼" (3.5 cm) wide and 40 cm (16") long

And finally...

The apple of my eye, the jewel of my crown, Renaissance Hearts

God bless Bartolomeo Veneto (active 1502-1531), who was incredibly good at painting clothing. Because this one, I could make literally the same pattern. I could just go...

The pattern is 3.5 cm (1 ¼") wide and 16" (40 cm) long.

My Etsy Store has even more designs, as well as some fashion accessories. Shipping is free on orders $40 CAD and above.

And as always, I remain deeply grateful for your attention, energy, enthusiasm, and patronage. I am so lucky to have this business; it's changed my life. Thank you!

#costuming #haberdashery #embroidery #needlework #textile art #historical fashion

[futurebird]

Alex Wild got me interested in attaphila fungicola with this first super cute photo of the myrmecophilous roaches that live with leaf cutter (fungi farming) ants.

I think their habit of harmlessly hitching rides on ants could inspire a line of adorable felt pillboxes. Can you see it?

#pillbox hat #ants #antposting #insects #bugblr #ant #myrmecology #roaches #invertebrates #fashion #inspiration #antblr #classic fashion #pillbox #haberdashery #hats #bugs #myrmecophilous roaches #leaf cutter ants #leafcutter ants #atta

[easternblocrelics]

Röltex (Hungarian haberdashery company) 1974

#hungary #eastern bloc #1974 #vintage #rug #haberdashery #ad #advertistment #calendar #pocket calendar #socialist #socialism

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A well-dressed gent on the Lower East Side, 1939-45.

Photo: Lisette Model via the National Gallery of Canada

#vintage New York #1940s #Lisette Model #gentleman #natty #menswear #haberdashery #Lower East Side #well dressed #vintage NYC

[pratchettquotes]

Rincewind dodged through a courtyard crisscrossed with washing lines and stopped, panting, with his back to the wall.

Although it was against his general principles, it was perhaps time to stop and think.

People were chasing him. That is to say, they were chasing a running figure in a faded red robe and a very charred pointy hat.

It took a great effort for Rincewind to come to terms with the idea, but it was just possible that if he was wearing something else he might not be chased. [...]

The palace was almost a city in its own right, said the voice of reason. It must be full of people on all sorts of errands, it added.

It would mean...taking off our hat, it added.

Rincewind hesitated. It would be hard for a non-wizard to grasp the enormity of the suggestion. A wizard would sooner go without his robe and trousers than forgo his hat. Without his hat, people might think he was an ordinary person.

Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

#rincewind #interesting times #discworld #terry pratchett #wizard #clothing #clothes #fashion #hat #haberdashery #disguise #identity #symbolic #logic #voice of reason #against his general principals #ordinary person #long quote

[xsceneusernamex]

The word haberdashery is cool as fuck. Let’s bring that shit back.

#hellsite #relatable #haberdashery #tumblr renaissance #comedy #words words words

[veiligplekje]

#haberdashery #sewing #diy #crafting #grandmacore #warmcore

[scavengedluxury]

Haberdashery display, 1969. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#budapest #hungary #liminal #night #neon #haberdashery #1960s

[towelstudios]

Swapped

#spamton #deltaswap #jevil the jester #jevil #vampire #haberdashery

[dancyrilkingston]

Bear sewing caddy (c. 1880’s)

#bear #sewing #sewing accessories #needlework #pincushion #sewing caddy #haberdashery #sewing notions #notions #black forest #boo boo

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Embroider me like one of your Venetian men

Want to get into embroidery? My Etsy shop makes it easy to sew patterns from centuries past, or visible mending patches for the 21st century. Just stick them on, stitch through them, and wash the pattern away!

Check it out!

(I also offer bulk discounts now! Five-packs are 20% off, and ten-packs are 25%!)

#haberdashery #crass commercialism

[beesmakesthings]

Hello costume people. Can you help?

I got this amazing cloak on that Vinted for the emergent Pirate Queen. These fastenings do not fasten - they clearly have a bit missing. The pieces on the right of the image are less worked and have notches in. I’m thinking they need something attached - like the balls made of cord you find in frogging type fastenings. I do have tried various searching but come up empty.

Can anyone help me with what I need and how I might make it?! I think I can see you’d need it wrapped on the ones on the right of the image so it pops through the hole on the other one.

Someone made this cloak - it’s an absolutely beautiful piece of work. It’s perfect for what we want and I’ll be lining it with something less 16th century once we’re done with it for costume purposes.

#handmade #homemade #crafts #costume #cosplay #haberdashery #pirate queen #fasteners #please help

[ub-sessed]

Omg je pense que j'ai trouvé un emploi!! Dans mon magasin de couture préféré!!!

Mais moi je suis anglophone, moi. Je connais presque aucun terme de couture, tricot etc. en français. Je me demande si

Il existe-tu des ressources en ligne pour apprendre le vocabulaire de la couture, du tricot etc.?

Peut être un glossaire? Ou des YouTubers francophones qui parlent de la couture etc.?

🪡🧵🧶🧵🪡🧵🧶🧵🪡🧵🧶🧵🪡

OMG I THINK I GOT A JOB!! At my favourite sewing store!! The owner didn't care at all that I know very little sewing terminology in French (he said a lot of the clientele doesn't speak English or French; he seemed much more interested in the fact that I speak English. A lot of the clientèle is probably Portuguese, which he speaks), but I'd still be a lot more comfortable if I could do some studying.

So now I'm looking for websites that have French vocabulary for sewing, knitting etc. Or francophone sewing/knitting YouTubers. Suggestions?

#couture #tricot #vocabulaire #français #terminologie #coudre #tricoter #tissus #mercerie #haberdashery #sewing #French #terminology #vocabulary #i am freaking out #lexique #accessoires de couture