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Embroidered overdress | de Young / Legion of Honor | c. 1800-1810

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Blue damask court mantua with silver embroidery | Museum Wales | c. 1730-40.

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I finished the new breastcollar for the horses yesterday. So nice that the boys use almost the same size, so I can use it on all of them! Now I just have to make a new bridle in the same style and wait for the new bit I bought! ✨🐴

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Rococo silks and metallics. France early to mid 18th century, Exoticism of worn Ottoman velvet mat, with it’s intricate silver embroidered frieze, leopard fur and feathers, an early gold thread worked stomacher with matching trim piece coiled on a Spitalfields brocade. 

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Love the mix of floral and plaid…warm and cool shades deftly playing off each other. All 18th century froth…ribbons and ruffles and floral sprays…

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At last Spring! Spring roses and pinks…from my collection of 18th century historical costume and antique Bourbon roses….Madame Earnest Calvat and Mademoiselle Isaac Pereire…

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Early 18th c raspberry silk faille frock coat panels, heavily embroidered with silver and sequins. Probably once sleeved with same silk faille, and longer…adapting with the times…

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18th century…and the colors of Summer…favorites in my collection.

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18th century textures...shimmering pink silk taffeta child's dress and gilded shelf, tattered floral papier dominotes paperbacks and hand made floral trim...

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Early 18th c raspberry silk faille frock coat panels, heavily embroidered with silver and sequins. Probably once sleeved with same silk faille, and longer…adapting with the times…

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At last Spring! Spring roses and pinks…from my collection of 18th century historical costume and antique Bourbon roses….Madame Earnest Calvat and Mademoiselle Isaac Pereire…

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18th century…and the colors of Summer…favorites in my collection.

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Once part of my collection, this beautiful 18th c Pompadour Pink Robe a la Francaise (Sack back) gown is now at Museum at FIT, and was part of their recent Pink exhibit (link below). Striking green reverse to the silk. 

https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/pink.php

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Once part of my collection, this beautiful 18th c Pompadour Pink Robe a la Francaise (Sack back) gown is now at Museum at FIT, and was part of their recent Pink exhibit (link below). Striking green reverse to the silk. 

https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/pink.php