Interactive database and visual glossary of the Dutch global textile trade in 17th and 18th centuries.
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When is a stripe not JUST a stripe? See Hannah’s latest entry on ‘Streep’ (English: stripe), a specific textile carried on Dutch trading ships: dutchtextiletrade.org/textil… #textiles #WIC #voc
I’m so thrilled to share a new entry in our Visual Textile Glossary for lijnwaad (or #linen), authored by our amazing #Kress fellow, Hannah Prescott: dutchtextiletrade.org/textil…
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And it's LIVE!!! With our new Swatch Search, you can explore our collection of #textiles swatches (and a few larger items), either by historic textile name (if they were labeled) or by attributes like color, pattern, process, weave structure, and fiber. dutchtextiletrade.org/projec…
We’re excited to share a new app to explore trade textiles! Hoping to publish very soon - watch this space!!!
So cool to see these opened up 200 years later! And excited to see those stockings— the Dutch were shipping hundreds of pairs of stockings (kousen) to Asian ports annually in the late 1700s…
In 1807, the ship Anne Marie was captured by the British Navy while sailing from the Faroe Islands to Denmark. Five packages and two hundred letters were confiscated from the ship and survived, still sealed, in the Prize Papers. What’s inside? Read below to find out. /1
ALT Two still-sealed packages (but you can see a glimpse of red coloured wool in one corner), black background. Credits: Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/952, Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK, Photographer: Maria Cardamone.
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Funded PhD opportunity with the wonderful @SuzannaIvanic AND ME!!! Are you interested in craft, making, knowledge and belief? Do you know someone who could be? #earlymodern #twitterstorians please spread the word.... komldsp.org.uk/projects/craf…
Very nice excited and proud to share that we have won the @RSAorg Digital Innovation prize!!!
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Fabric of Democracy @FashionTextile explores textiles as ‘highly charged political objects’ - from the French Revolution to Brexit. We caught up with exhibition curator Amber Butchart to find out more about Blitz dresses, Communist bedspreads, & Brexit tea towels (1/2)
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Back in 1692, obscure Dutch artist A Boogert produced a one-off, hand-painted, 900 page catalogue of every conceivable colour, complete with handwritten, detailed advice to artists on how to create them. Now available online, see
openculture.com/2019/10/a-90…
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From the study of the original remainings of the mantua I realized that the silk brocade used was once’s also supported with interlayers. In order to get the right feeling with our new mantua, we have tried recreating this by the addition of different interlayers as well.
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📣 Historians & Students! Join us for a deep dive into the early modern Indian Ocean trade during a datasprint.
🗓️ Dec 4, 13-16:15, Amsterdam. Help enrich our commodity thesaurus, gain skills & make history!
Info: globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/ev…
@CREATE_UvA @HistoriciNL @huygens_knaw
ALT An example of a cargo list with textiles from Ceylon in the VOC archive, with several packs of bethilles, moeris, vlaggedoek, salempoeris, neusdoeken and periemoenemolam. Nationaal Archief, CC0.
‘Repair is the new cool’: how Amsterdam started a fashion revolution theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
Excited to announce that Hannah Prescott, PhD Candidate at UMD, is our 2nd Kress fellow for this academic year! She'll be working on 18th century textile cargoes of the Middleburgse Commercie Compagnie arthistory.umd.edu/directory… Thanks also to @KressFdn for support
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#Fashionhistory and textile scholars! Thinking of applying for #textiles or #dresshistory research funding next year? Get prepared, and find out about the wide range of grants available to all #textilehistory researchers from the Pasold Fund: pasold.co.uk/index
Ooh, this looks good!!
Fashioning Acadians is now officially available for preorder from MQUP, releasing October 31st. I'm so excited to see six years of my life finally exist in physical form!
mqup.ca/fashioning-acadians-…
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We're honored to announce a record $25 million endowment gift to our museum from an anonymous donor. This transformative gift guarantees long-term support for textile conservation, curatorial scholarship and educational initiatives. Read more at museum.gwu.edu/george-washin…
ALT A curator and her student compare a round textile fragment to a picture of that fragment in a book. They are in a lab.