#brocaded silk

[silkdamask-blog]

Wishing you good morning with a #dressweight #brocaded #silk fragment; French c1760s+ #studycollection

[paletapessoal]

Evening dress, red silk and black rose brocade , 1850s.

[threadtalk]

Blue gowns in this period (1765-1770) are rare, but this one just blows my mind because of the pattern matching situation going on.

Do you ever wonder why you don't see lots of dresses in the same patterns? That's because bolts of cloth were often made to order, or in such small batches that there would only be enough for one or two dresses--especially when there was this much fabric involved. Matching patterns with this much precision took incredible skill, and not a lot of room for mistakes.

According to the museum, this dress in in three parts: the petticoat, stomacher, and open robe. And they are "largely unaltered"--which is another rarity. Materials of this quality were often so sought after that the were re-cut and sewn decades, and sometimes, centuries after. Or, refitted to new wearers.

Image Credit: © Historic Deerfield, Photo by Penny Leveritt

[bebemoon]

look for the name: SABINA

@a-doctor-not-a-fangirl

roberto cavalli gold brocade-print silk corset and skirt set, a/w 2oo4

regal rose "temple of chambers" garnet cathedral ring in gold + falconiere mid-length brass chanmail fingerless gloves

italian sterling silver lipstick mirror case lipstick holder w/ carnelian clasp, c. early 19oo's

christian lacroix paris satin heels w/ gold and silver side chain accent

lelet ny "jackie" pearl and gold chain headband

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wedding Dress

c.1880

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences 

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Court dress (Open robe, petticoat).

Place of origin: England

Date: ca. 1760

Medium: Silk brocade

[sodatabsandspiders]

they should make a silk brocade that doesn't hate you

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Red Silk Robe à l’anglaise Dress, ca. 1770, British.

Met Museum.

[devilrose]

Kud-Ei from the Bravil Mages Guild

[empirearchives]

Fabric in Napoleon’s bedroom at the Tuileries Palace.

130 meters of this brocaded white satin was purchased by Napoleon from Grands Frères in 1808.

Source: Mobilier National, displayed at the exhibition Palais Disparus de Napoléon [tr: Vanished Palace of Napoleon].

Detail:

[silkdamask-blog]

Wishing you #HappyGalentinesDay #HappyValentinesDay or #HappyWednesday with ‘Declaration of Love’ by Jean Francois de Troy ❤️❤️❤️

[threadtalk]

No, you are not imagining things. This is not a Betsey Johnson dress somehow masquerading as a historical garment. There was no time travel. This is a real gown from the mid(ish) 1700s made of Spitalfields silk.

Like many extant gowns, the secret is in the stitching. We know a few things about this dress due to its construction. 1) it was remade to fit changing aesthetics, likely during the same century and 2) it's a selvedge dress, meaning that unlike mantuas, it's made of pieced together silk (most expertly done) to show the appearance of an undisturbed piece of fabric.

The bright, floral brocade pattern is not at all uncommon, as the motifs of this era were certainly vivid in every sense. I particularly love the contrasting deep brown of the stomacher with the rest of the dress. It's relatively simple in terms of the times, but I adore it!

From Cora Ginsburg.

[wellthebardsdead]

Urag: Arch mage Deneth did try dressing him in traditional dunmer garb when he was younger but he was so clumsy he kept tripping over the fabric.

Wyrm: *from behind the door* i-i was not! It was too big on me!!!

Nerevar: *looks at urag* was it?

Urag: *shakes his head chuckling* we hemmed it up to his mid shins to be safe and he still tripped over it.

Voryn: all done! *opens the door and ushers Wyrm out*

Wyrm: *dressed in a flowy pretty hanfu in the colours of house sotha, visibly pouting* I hate it.

Nerevar: Hate it?! You look great!

Wyrm: *fidgets his arm aggressively before nearly ripping the sleeve to get his hand free* it’s too bulky and flappy and itchy and I hate it!!

Voryn: okay okay we’ll try the more fitted one now. *pats his hair and turns him around gently ushering him back into his room*

Wyrm: *takes one step and instantly face plants into the floor* …Just let me be naked.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Up Close: Reception Dress, 1884 (RISD Museum)

[mote-historie]

1878 Dinner dress, Silk brocade lace silk satin by Emile Pingat.

Dinner dress, 1878 (back oblique partial view). Silk brocade, lace, silk satin by Emile Pingat. 

Photo by Chicago History Museum.

[transactinides]

expressed a similar sentiment in shays dms but

hes my crane wife