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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Absolutely perfect ….. ✨🧡✨🩵✨🧡✨🩵✨

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#Ootd is this 1760 British Robe a la francaise. People like to think that outfits in the past were drab or dull, but past eras had a love of color that could rival today. This gown is made of silk taffeta, dyed with weld, a natural dye that produces a bright, clear yellow from a compound called

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Some photos from Blickling Hall last year! 🌱

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“Her Favourite Pets” by Léon Herbo. 1889. www.1stdibs.com/art/painting...

Oil painting of a lady in a red dress with white collar sitting for a portrait. In her hands she gently holds a dove, but her attention is directed to her left shoulder where her shorthaired calico cat seems to be gently treading to get closer to the dove.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Going to be trying out this historical knitting pattern once the yarn arrives! Wish me luck- historical patterns aren't the easiest to follow. 🥲

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

New antique! I recently bought this (damaged) antique 1850s dress and it's absolutely stunning. The fabric is gorgeous; so soft. It's entirely handsewn and features the beautiful 1850s silhouette I adore with its wide neckline and large bell skirt. Very happy to own this piece of history!

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Some natural form beauty today! I think it's the most elegant era within Victorian fashion. The elongated bodies with mermaid's tail trains and the recently introduced princess line dress resulted in a beautiful few years.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

A fashion plate from 1868. This was right at the beginning of the soft bustle era, when the fashion for piling one's skirts at the back of the dress and wearing an elliptical crinoline resulted in the first real bustle being worn. The era lasted into the mid 1870s.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

The 1850s is my favourite fashion decade! I love the pagoda sleeves, the shape of the skirts, the flounced overskirts and the entire vibe. The Louis XV style which was revived in this decade is absolutely gorgeous, lending Georgian extravagance and pastels to the Victorian era.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

In the 1890s when cycling became a popular pastime for women, radical dress (left) was one of the ways women would dress so they could cycle easily and still preserve modesty and femininity. Opinions on it were mixed- some thought it was a great idea; others said it looked ridiculous!

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

The early 19th century isn't my biggest interest, but I can't deny that fashion in that era was timelessly beautiful ✨

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Girl's dress, 1860-1865, V&A museum. Girl's dresses had higher hemlines than adult dresses, but were in many other ways a miniature version of what women would wear, often including light boning in the bodice. As the girl grew up, her hemline would lower steadily to the floor.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Dress, 1868-9, V&A museum. I'm not typically a fan of the late 1860s silhouette, but this example is stunning! I think it's because the bustle is more toned down than was usual. The decoration on this is absolutely gorgeous; the sort of thing I'd definitely love to recreate someday.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

My antique Victorian doll, Eliza :)

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Swiss artist Jean-Étienne Liotard demonstrates his porcelain-smooth pastel technique in this depiction of a housemaid carrying a tray of breakfast cocoa (The Chocolate Girl, 1722; Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden)

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Can anyone help solve this antique Victorian puzzle poem from 1896? 🤔 It's proven to be quite a challenge! There's prize money involved... We've only missed the deadline by over a century 🫣

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

1869 Victorian antique sampler! Little girls would make these to practice their sewing. This example was made by a girl named Blanche Brown Dunsfold, aged 7.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Antique 1830s fan! It's made of bone and feather and the original ribbon is still intact. I love to own little pieces of history like this.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

I never used to like the 1880s, but the period is definitely growing on me! The bustle lends itself much better to the more 'plain' (if you can call it that... it's still lovely, as all historical fashion is, but in comparison to earlier decades it's plain) style of the 1880s rather than the 1870s

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Some antique photos in my collection! I'm a particular fan for the second one, which has the writing 'Clara, 19' on the back. Interesting to think about how much older people looked in the past 😌 People say that about teenagers in the 1980s too but clearly the effect was still around in the 1880s 😯

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

A man with a cat, drawn by Dutch humanist Pieter van Veen in the margins of his copy of Montaigne’s "Essais" (Paris, 1602). British Library C.28.g.7. The text is part of "An Apology for Raymond Sebond" and addresses the relationship between humans and animals. #cats #booksky

Excerpt from Montaigne's Essais, with a charming marginal drawing of a man petting a cat, the section highlighted reads "it is by the same vanity of imagination that he equals himself to God, attributes to himself divine qualities, withdraws and separates himself from the crowd of other creatures, cuts out the shares of the animals, his fellows and companions"

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Pearl Perry and beautiful shoulder friend. contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/coll...

Black and white photo portrait of young white woman in a dark, ruffled Victorian dress. She is seated and looking happily off to the right of the viewer. On her left shoulder sits an adorable petite, shorthaired white and tabby cat which is also looking to the right of the viewer.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Skirt I made! I did the main construction by machine then all the pleating & waistband attachment was done by hand. I love the cartridge pleating technique; it reduces so much fabric to the waist size which creates a really flowy lovely skirt. I also love how neat this technique is :)

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 18/10/2024

Remember the good old days? When girls were prim and proper, very polite, always did what they were told and never behaved as badly as they do today? Me neither. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, November 16, 1907

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I think Georgian fashion is very beautiful, however, I'm not a fan of the wigs and the silhouette that panniers give. The boxy style of stays is lovely imo & I love the original Dolly Varden style dress FAR more than the 1870s recreation for that exact reason.

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Issy @founderymir.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

My favourite painting! Empress Eugenie surrounded by her ladies in waiting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1855. I think it's a gorgeous example of 1850s fashion and I love Winterhalter's work in general.

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