Went to hemp mill De Paauw in #Assendelft today. It was absolutely wonderful thanks to the volunteers working with the mill and telling all about it. Most practical knowledge of how to make cloth from hemp has vanished. So basically they are doing research by trial and error. An excellent start of Tour de Fleece.
#HandSpinning #TextileHistory #WindMills #TourDeFleece
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The next At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed online event is coming up! Sunday, June 29 is all about "Textiles from Ulster, Ireland, c.1830-1914"! 
Speakers:
Valerie Wilson - Berlin Wool Work: charting Needlework History in the Nineteenth Century Lynn Hulse - Art Embroidery and the Celtic Revival in Ireland Fiona McKelvie - Irish Linen: an International Success Story
Read more and register for free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-29-june-2025-200pm-bst-tickets-1379592170319?
#DressHistory #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #19thCentury #History #Ireland #Needlework @historikerinnen @histodons
EventbriteAt Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed - 29 June 2025 - 2.00pm BSTOur June ‘At home’ will explore dress and textiles originating from or made in the province of Ulster in the long nineteenth century.
A very sad, heartbreaking story - I've never before heard of those forced sterilisations. I knew that Fujimori was a monster, but this detail member made it into the mainstream in Germany.
‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/23/its-the-first-time-ive-woven-in-27-years-peruvian-women-revive-arts-lost-to-trauma-of-forced-sterilisations
The Guardian · ‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations
I think I'm rather happy that modern clothing is a bit less fussy - dealing with that amount of pins each morning ...
Why did Georgian dresses cost as much as a townhouse?! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnjj1ZluP0
Save the date, Dress History friends, for another "At Home with C19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" online event on Sunday, May 25!
"This themed session focuses on the development of the chemisette, the male shirt and the blouse in relation to themes of innovation, consumption, manufacture and the historic display of classed and gendered bodies. All welcome!"
Speakers:
Hilary Davidson - When is a Chemisette a Chemisette? John Finkelberg - Inventing Modern Masculinity and the White Shirt Suzanne Rowland - Unpacking the fashionable 'Edwardian' Blouse
Read more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-25th-may-2025-300pm-bst-tickets-1304085698429?aff=oddtdtcreator
#DressHistory #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #19thCentury #Edwardian #GenderStudies #History @historikerinnen @histodons
EventbriteAt Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed - 25th May 2025 - 3.00pm BSTJoin us for this special themed session focusing on the development of the chemisette, the shirt and the blouse!
I already boosted this video yesterday, when I'd only watched a few minutes.
But this is so, so much better than I thought. It's powerful, beautifully told and very sobering. Very US centric (because of course, Evie is from the US and because a lot of the current problems are because of what's going on over there).
Yarn and textile is the vehicle, but it's about so much more.
"Explaining tarrifs with a textile history lesson" - JillianEve
Continued thread
Read the alt texts of the photos above about the #yarn's history. Here you can learn more about the history of this "more glossy than silk" patent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon
This #emboidery #floss was a hype since 1905/1910 ... and we can imagine that some of the governesses who had the misfortune to be on board, used it for #embroideries in the luxury rooms of the #Titanic.
en.wikipedia.orgRayon - Wikipedia
I was at this #GatherFiberSymposium event yesterday, and we all yearned to be at the protest. But I will say that hanging with artists was really good for my soul. Artists are taking no shit.
Anyway: so many great events coming this month if you like textile arts. And our #IpswichLace event made the #Boston Globe today.
The #GatherFiberSymposium got noticed by the local media! We were psyched that they invited our lace group in to their month of fiber art celebrations. There are a ton of great events going on.
More details from The Boston Globe (or search archive.youknow for an unpaywalled version).
#BobbinLace #Textiles #knitting #sewing #crafts #makers #TextileHistory
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/arts/gather-2025-fiber-textile-art-symposium-greater-boston/
The Boston Globe · Gather 2025 explores fiber arts in Greater Boston
In 2008, a pile of old junk was found under floorboards in an Austrian castle. VERY old junk - from the 1400s. It included several pieces of linen, which unlike wool or silk, usually decays quickly.
More specifically they found women's underwear, which is virtually never mentioned in surviving medieval texts. The discovery pushed back the invention of the bra by *several hundred years*. It's very modern looking.
The US patent for bras only goes back to 1914. At the earliest something like modern bras were thought to be worn in France in the late 1700s.
https://newsonhistory.blogspot.com/2013/06/discovery-of-600-year-old-lingerie_30.html
I haven't been in #Amsterdam for a while ... time to go again?
"Oltre Terra, Formafantasma’s ongoing project and traveling exhibition, explores the history, ecology, and global dynamics of wool extraction and production. It goes further than the simple definition of wool as material, to look at it within a much broader ecology. "
The #lace segment that ran today is now available to view on the web.
My heart is broken that they showed only a smidge of #IpswichLace and didn't even say its name....sigh.
#BobbinLace #Needlelace #IOLI #IrishLace #Idrija #TextileHistory #RBG
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/weaving-a-fascination-for-lace/
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i didn't know that Kind Of Blanket was a widespread cultural phenomenon, i just thought it was just my grandma who had a ton of them for some reason #Monsterdon #ThingsILearnedFromMonsterdon #MonsterdonHistory #TextileHistory #KindsOfBlankets
Fabric of Britain - three episodes in one video. Knitting, wallpapers and embroidery (I skipped the wallpaper part for now, but will probably watch it later on).
Nice entertainment while crocheting corals.
#fiberarts #textilehistory @fiberarts @knitting #knitting #textileart
They are knitting at the speed of light.
Shetland Knitters Really Did Knit 200 Stitches a Minute!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ibP2YH6QCI&si=Xx5krtqhyvU0Qhfy
Very interesting insights
Standardized Sizes Ruined our Clothing Quality
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3HGvh9eeVpE&si=coO35wVmZhR8k732
Whenever I sit at my spinning wheel I feel like I'm rather proficient.
And then I watch a video like this one and realize: I'm barely a beginner. At best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LZwkm6eLY
#spinning @spinning @fiberarts #fiberarts #spinningwheel #cotton #textilehistory
Something fascinating for Friday: Dr Smiti Nathan talking about ancient socks:
Interesting lecture - presented with a lot of humor.
#fiberarts @fiberarts #textilehistory
Expert examines rare surviving example of 16th century dress having neve...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Scl1SOvgYN0&si=ldqSRGbZLER6gzqo
I didn't realise flickr doesn't have native support for alt-text still, so I'm slowly adding them in the description field.
In any case, if you are in KL, the National Textile Museum is holding an exhibition on telepuk cloth (my only involvement with the organizing group that secured the exhibition is just being in the chat group, lol), from now until the end of 2024. If anyone wants me to give a very amateur guided tour, just let me know??
Flickra telepuk cloth on display