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oldbluedoor.bsky.social
When #MaritimeHistory meets #TextileHistory Just released this week! Lots of good technical details on original and reconstructed sails
September 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Queen Njinga leading her troops in style. #Angola #earlymodern #africanhistory #17thcentury #textilehistory #ivory #africanqueen
African Queen Njinga leading a group of people
November 30, 2024 at 11:45 AM
kateatherley.bsky.social
I don't know about you, but I'm about ready to break some frames. #deepcut #textilehistory #luddites🧶
April 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
kentwellhall.bsky.social
For #textiletuesday, more beautiful work from the #Greensleevesproject

#embroidery
#textilehistory
#blackwork
#Elizabethan
passamezzo.bsky.social Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · Jan 10
#greensleevesproject update!
#Greensleeves is given a number of accessories, including a #purse.
Sarah Thursfield has made this beautiful reproduction of a typical late #Elizabethan #sweetbag worked in #silk thread, with #spangles
#tudor #tudors #blackwork #earlymodern #embroidery #braid
January 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
This is wonderful #Crochet #TextileHistory
February 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
#TextileHistory
jdmccafferty.bsky.social John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 19d
Alice Barnham and Her Sons Martin and Steven 1557 Unknown artist (Denver Art Museum)

Alice Barnham (b. 7 Sept 1523, buried 14 May 1604) née Bainbridge, was a successful #London silk merchant.
September 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
markalanmattes.bsky.social
#bookhistory #textilehistory ⬇️⬇️⬇️
drleonj.bsky.social Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · Jul 30
Researching today, I came across a tiny textile scrap in an 1800 writ of attachment. (Details on the case in alt text). Any fashion, fabric, dress, or material culture historians know what textile it might be? Thanks! 🗃️
A writ of attachment from 1800, issued on behalf of Boston attorney Thomas O. Selfridge against his client Sarah Freeman, an African American woman, who owes him $12 in unpaid legal fees. The writ is a printed form, completed by hand, in the lower portion is a tiny scrap of textile. A writ of attachment from 1800, issued on behalf of Boston attorney Thomas O. Selfridge against his client Sarah Freeman, an African American woman, who owes him $12 in unpaid legal fees. The writ is a printed form, completed by hand, in the lower portion is a tiny scrap of textile. Close up of the textile scrap Selfridge’s bill against Freeman for helping her prosecute Nancy Princess and Hitty Little, neighbors of hers and also African American, as well as for writing and presenting a petition on her behalf to Boston’s Court of General Sessions of the Peace
July 30, 2026 at 1:30 AM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Heads up! Swatch book! #textilehistory
book-historia.bsky.social Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · Aug 2
Time to be a #SaturdayLibrarian , but with an audience…
An open book of textile samples in front of a mannequin dressed like an American colonial man
August 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
rebeccaolds.bsky.social
The back is pleated.
Oh, the joys of working with a symmetrical pattern!
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#18thcenturyfashion #EnglishNightgown #silk #floral #damask #fashion #fashionhistory #dresshistory #textilehistory #everyinchhandstitched #mantuamaker #mantuamaking
February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Fascinating culture of indigenous dyeing #TextileHistory
What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
katharineedgar.bsky.social
I love people who rescue orphan #quilt blocks! #textilehistory
This is a lovely thread.
megueyb.bsky.social MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · Jan 5
The problem with being a textile historian with a speciality in quilting is that sometimes I get so in the head of the prior sewists I don’t know how to proceed with the project. Let me show you my current puzzle: a stack of 9-patch blocks of unknown provenance. #Quilting #History
It’s a big stack, over 6” tall, of 3x3 checker-board squares. The center square of each block is roughly 1”, the surrounding squares slightly larger, to accommodate a seam allowance. Each has four solid white cotton patches and five print cotton patches in an assortment of colors and fabrics.
January 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Nice loom tucked in the corner #TextileHistory
jdmccafferty.bsky.social John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Dec 10
Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adriaen van Ostade, 1673. (Met Museum)

The artist was b. #otd 10 Dec 1610
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
mantuamaker.bsky.social
Here is my current list of accounts to follow for #dresshistory and #textilehistory

go.bsky.app/UFrjFze
January 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
#TextileHistory
September 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
rpzquinton.bsky.social
A detail shows the appliquéd design with ‘HA’ for #HenryVIII and #AnneBoleyn with acorns - a royal emblem - and honeysuckles - one of Anne’s emblems #textilehistory #embroidery #16thC
November 24, 2024 at 7:11 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Some #textilehistory on this interesting #quilt
historicnewengland.bsky.social Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · Jun 17
What can a quilt tell us about the #AmericanRevolution? When remnants of the Battle of Bunker Hill tie to an unusual object in our collection, more questions are raised than answers. We asked: could the story be true?

Behind the Exhibition → www.historicnewengland.org/behind-the-e...

#NE250 #HNE
Behind the Exhibition: The Myth of the Bunker Hill Quilt Top | Historic New England
www.historicnewengland.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
A nice bit of #dresshistory and #textilehistory
alexharvv.bsky.social Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · Jun 16
The 'Fleecy Frisians' exported their famous Frisian cloth (Fresum) from salt-grazing sheep along the Waadsee from the 5-6th c. if not earlier. It made for comfortable clothing and weatherproof sails

I used an early medieval tunic discovered near Bernuthsfeld as an inspiration here
June 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
For those of you unfamiliar with it, this garment was found in 1913 and then sat in storage for *60 years*, apparently labeled “a tumbled heap of dirty linen” (Prehistoric Textiles, EJW Barber) #textilehistory #dresshistory
lemoustier.bsky.social Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · May 24
🏺 🗃️ If you're into history of textiles, I highly recommend this 1979 publication on conservation of the Tarkhan tunic (world's oldest linen garment):
features ancient elbow creases, a photography fail admirably admitted to, ironing, and dramatic turning outside-in

www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1...
www.jstor.org
May 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
lextextilia.bsky.social
Reposting with some hashtags and… hash-emojis? (Sorry I’m old) 🧶🪡 #fiberart #textileart #quilts #embroidery #sewing #handwork #surfacedesign #textilehistory
lextextilia.bsky.social Alexis Deise @lextextilia.bsky.social · Nov 18
Looking for my fellow fiber/quilt/embroidery artists! If you’re here give me a shout! What hashtags are we using?
November 18, 2024 at 4:21 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
A wonderful new take on Morris’s The Strawberry Thief #textilehistory
ibenkrutt.bsky.social Iben Krutt 🇳🇴 @ibenkrutt.bsky.social · Aug 2
Pepper Thief, 2025
Art Fight revenge on @Clawswipe
An homage to the famous textile pattern Strawberry Thief by William Morris. Instead of thrushes stealing strawberries, there is a furry wormlike creature stealing peppers from a Cuban amazon parrot amongst a field of nasturtiums. An homage to the famous textile pattern Strawberry Thief by William Morris. Instead of thrushes stealing strawberries, there is a furry wormlike creature stealing peppers from a Cuban amazon parrot amongst a field of nasturtiums.
August 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
Bucket list item, CHECKED. ☑️

I have been chasing the "Plimoth Jacket" replica for years--since I first found out about it and my #lace group's participation in the project (before I became a lacemaker).

The backstory story [pdf]: pressroom.winterthur.org/pdfs/Plimoth...

#TextileHistory

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pressroom.winterthur.org
September 19, 2026 at 8:12 PM
rebeccaolds.bsky.social
Progress on my chintz short sack: making and attaching pleated strips of self fabric as trim.

Photo on the right is the extant gown held by Dordrecht Museum, taken by @monalunasimone.bsky.social.

#18thC #18thCentury #DressHistory #FashionHistory #chintz #TextileHistory #Mantuamaker
February 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
katharineedgar.bsky.social
For #textiletuesday, this #Victorian #sampler of the 23rd Psalm from #Beverley Museum made me laugh because of the way it goes, ‘He maketh me to lie down in gre—‘ and then just stops.
#embroidery #historicembroidery #textilehistory #crossstitch
Sampler embroidered in cross stitch in different bright colours
February 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
megueyb.bsky.social
On my workbench today: a baby cap made c 1770, getting a condition check & minor mends before going on exhibit. #LoveMyJob #museums #TextileHistory #FundTheHumanities
Very fine white cotton cap with cutwork lace.
March 30, 2026 at 8:25 PM
archive.org
Read Nomura's essay and many more in Vanishing Culture.

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #ComputingHistory #TextileHistory
Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.
September 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM