#historical pocket

[gearsbehindthewall]

I never posted the pocket I made, and I've been wearing it for over a year now! Poor thing has seen a couple thousand hours of work already.

The process and the worn piece. It's starting to show some wear and frayed spots, but I'll patch it up.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Pocket

1710s

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

[fashion-from-the-past]

[magistralucis]

Headcanon that the current Solemnace crew all have Waist Inventory™, taking after their overlord, who still carries his curios in this manner despite also having free access to such things as dimensional pockets and tessarect labyrinths. We know the Huntmaster canonically carries his trophies like this, and since Sannet apparently fashions his writing implements out of his own necrodermis, it doesn't sound too far-fetched that he might keep field notes and the like in a similar fashion. Ashkut could have a chronomancer prod there or something. The possibilities are endless

I bet he'd be delighted by the concept of a fanny pack

[daguerreotyping]

Tintype of two men sharing a mysteriously charged moment of contention—or benediction?—over a pocket watch, c. 1870s

[jewellery-box]

Renaissance-revival lady's pocket watch

Tiffany & Co. (American, active 1837–present)

American (Swiss works)

about 1890

Gold, silver, enamel, diamond, and crystal

MFA Boston

[aeide-thea]

[T]rousers were actually a technological breakthrough. Mounted herders and warriors needed their leg coverings to be flexible enough to let the wearer swing a leg across a horse without ripping the fabric or feeling constricted. At the same time, they needed some added reinforcement at crucial areas like the knees. It became, to some extent, a materials-science problem. Where do you want something elastic, and where do you want something strong? And how do you make fabric that will accomplish both? For the makers of the world’s oldest pants, produced in China around 3,000 years ago, the answer was apparently to use different weaving techniques to produce fabric with specific properties in certain areas, despite weaving the whole garment out of the same spun wool fiber. […] Most of the pants are woven in what’s called twill, which you might recognize if you’ve ever put on a pair of jeans. The oldest known twill fabric in the world comes from the Hallstatt salt mine in Austria, and it has been radiocarbon dated to a bit earlier than the pants, between 3,500 and 3,200 years ago. Twill makes a diagonally ribbed, heavy fabric that’s also stretchier than the original wool thread. […] Flexibility isn’t everything, though, especially for the rough use a mounted warrior’s clothing probably got. At the knees, the ancient weaver switched to a different weaving method, called tapestry weaving, which produces a less flexible but thicker, sturdier fabric. At the waist, a third weaving method provided a thick waistband to help hold the pants in place, no doubt preventing extremely embarrassing battlefield incidents. And all of those components were woven as a single piece; there's no evidence of any of the fabric having been cut.

[marzipanandminutiae]

every 19th century dress I make into which pockets will fit, has pockets

ball gown? pockets. day dress? pockets? fancy day dress with train (promenade gown or whatever you want to call it)? POCKETS

there always are pockets. there always will be pockets. hear me when I say: I intend to make my wedding gown someday, and it will be a Victorian confection with pockets

this is a core tenet of my personal belief system.

[seamsterslocal]

i made this apron a couple years ago more or less as an excuse to get as deep into plaid matching as i could. the pattern is an original draft based on 1930s-1950s aprons in mail order catalogs. the side gathers in the hips (detail in last picture) especially is a 30s design detail. the bias straps on the pockets are for hanging a towel from

[cedarboots]

18th-century tie-on pockets I made for @jellosaladseance! I based them off the pattern and instructions on Burnley and Trowbridge's YouTube channel.

[pegglefan69]

Over the weekend I used some sock yarn scraps to knit a replica of the purse found with the Gunnister Man! The pattern I used included lots of fun info, including instructions on how to copy the really unusual cast-on he used, & the fact that he had an unfinished knitting project in another one of his pockets.

It was really fun & I want to knit more sometime! I ended up making this one a few inches longer to hold my phone & wallet, so some of the colorwork is me doodling instead of a direct copy. Maybe I'll pick 'accurate' colors in the future, but hey, I figure if he had access to a broader range of colors, maybe he'd've used a little hot pink too. 🧶

[good--merits-accumulated]

god. this anderperry renaissance au is knocking me around some kind of way

[eerna]

What's the book tho plz plz plz

And I Darken by Kiersten White!

[fashion-from-the-past]

Sewing Pattern For Pockets

[waaanderingluna]

🥀 𝕿𝖔 𝕸𝖞 𝕳𝖚𝖘𝖇𝖆𝖓𝖉'𝖘 𝕸𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘

[theherdofturtles]

You know I'm in this fandom but most days it feels like I'm not really in this fandom. At least, the community part. I sometimes lurk around other people's posts, once in a blue moon I read a fic, and quite honestly I'm not near thirsty enough to be here. Most of the time I'm just raising my eyebrows at posts and wondering why I'm on tumblr.