The Foundling Museum in the UK has launched an online, flash-based version of their Threads of Feeling exhibit. The exhibit is a collection of textile scraps left in the Foundling Hospital’s 18th century records about the abandoned children in their care. In the cases of more than 4,000 babies left between 1741 and 1760, a [...]
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Colonial Williamsburg brings to mind gorgeous fashion and extensively researched clothing construction already, but they’ve outdone themselves with Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing, a new online exhibit. From CW: Three centuries of historic threads help illuminate the lives of the men and women who once wore the clothing in this exhibition. From attending formal [...]
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From June 19–September 18, 2011, Wedded Perfection: Two Centuries of Wedding Gowns is coming to the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY. It just closed at the Cincinnati Art Museum, which owns most of the pieces in the show. If you can’t wait for June—or don’t live near Utica—a book of the same [...]
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