18th Century - Blog Posts
Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron),1764-72 by Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Look at this lady and this inconsiderate foolish fellow
1990 vmas Madonna
ukrainian clothes of 17-19 century by zinayida vasina
I can finally dress like a rococo man who escaped being guillotined!!! LETS GOOOO 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Imagine a store that sold clothing, Fabrics and equipment from the last 3 centuries, so from 1700s to 1990s.
Fashion from all cultures, subcultures, Aesthetics, and Social Classes, including the absolute Spa-like treatment with all relaxation and also functions as a Hotel outside Time and Space.
The place would be called
"Past Decade"
I've started another embroidered waistcoat! No, I haven't actually finished the other one yet, but I wanted to hone my tailoring skills a bit before I finished up the big fancy one. The photo on top is the actual extant waistcoat that I'm basing this one off of, and the bottom two pics are my in-progress embroidery. I'm aiming to have this project wrapped up in time for an event on the 16th of September.
I started this project quite some time ago (almost 2 years!) and I’ve finally gotten around to finishing it. I actually finished the embroidery last year, but I didn’t end up finishing the rest of the stomacher until this week. It’s based on an extant example from the V&A dated 1730-40. I copied the embroidery pattern exactly, but I changed the shape of the bottom of the stomacher since I don’t usually costume that early (I usually do ca. 1760.) More photos and making-of are on my most recent blog post : http://mistress-of-disguise.blogspot.com/search/label/18thC%20embroidered%20stomacher
Whipped up a quick mantelet to keep me warm at yesterday’s Georgian Picnic. The outer fabric is a champagne colored taffeta, and it has a warm fleece lining. I edged the entire thing with marabou to simulate fur. It was nice and warm in our cool fall weather!
Started on a new fall ensemble! This amazing gown is from a Tischbein portrait from 1770! I’m halfway through the petticoat now, and will hopefully be finishing it up in the next few days.
I’m using two shot taffetas for this dress - a blue/green taffeta and a red/yellow taffeta (that looks bright orange!). Things are going a bit slowly because there is a lot of hand-sewing involved. The hem on the petticoat is 2″ deep and all had to be hand-sewn. The edges on the fabric ribbon that will become the box-pleated trim also had to be hemmed by hand, all 360 inches! It was horrible, and now it looks like I’ll have to add another length of fabric on, so that’s another 120 inches to hem! Yeesh. I’m still hoping to wrap the petticoat up by the end of the week, though!
The embroidery for the 1760s waistcoat is officially finished! This one took me a while to complete, but looking back at my sewing diary I actually only spend a total of 16 days on the embroidery (though that was spread out over several months). As of now, I’ve put in around 150 hours, with more work to come.
The next thing to do is begin on construction. When it’s all finished, the waistcoat will be completely lined and have functional pockets. It will also be my first time making hand-sewn buttonholes, which is a little scary.
Now I need to figure out how to embroidery the coat that will go with this!
The fill pattern on one half of the waistcoat is finished! Tonight I’ll work on the other side and the remainder of the embroidery on the second pocket flap, and hopefully have all the embroidery wrapped up by tomorrow. Then it’s on to construction!
Embroidery on the 18th Century court suit is moving right along! This project started way back in February but had to be put aside because of how much schoolwork I was doing this semester. Now that school is out, I’m finally getting the chance to go back to it.
This suit is based on extant 18th Century court suits. The waistcoat is a cream duchess silk satin with cotton embroidery and metal spangles. So many spangles! I’m glad I have a fella that will let me make his clothes sparkly.
I’m hoping to finish up this week and finally begin the construction. I also need to make a new shirt for him before I can move on to the coat, so that’s in the queue, as well. Now to decide what embroidery pattern to use for the coat...
I rendered my 18th century ocs over a painting, they came out so good
the french republics summarized
First Republic: hundreds of angry lawyers with divergent political opinions stuck in the same room (it makes for amazing entertainment)
Second Republic: "President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte"? Sounds perfectly safe to me!
Third Republic: WE FUCKING HATE THE GERMANS 😡
Fourth Republic:
Fifth Republic: Ah, finally a republic that is actually stable! ...wait a minute-
Suvorov soldiers with trophies leave the defeated fortress.
lowkey an old one but it still makes me laugh sometimes LMAO
jacques roux and claire lacombe (yuri below)
Slutshaming women is not ok Slutshaming Alexander Hamilton is totally ok Tumblr logic
so erm, I thought a QnA might be fun! also because maybe it could get me thinking of more ideas for my au since I haven't figured everything out yet- and I always like hearing yalls thought on stuff ^U^
Norwich pattern books
These happy-looking books from the 18th century contain records. Not your regular historical records - who had died or was born, or how much was spent on bread and beer - but a record of cloth patterns available for purchase by customers. They survive from cloth producers in Norwich, England, and they are truly one of a kind: a showcase of cloth slips with handwritten numbers next to them for easy reference. The two lower images are from a pattern book of the Norwich cloth manufacturer John Kelly, who had such copies shipped to overseas customers in the 1760s. Hundreds of these beautiful objects must have circulated in 18th-century Europe, but they were almost all destroyed. The ones that do survive paint a colourful picture of a trade that made John and his colleagues very rich.
Pics: the top two images are from an 18th-century Norwich pattern book shown here; the lower ones are from a copy kept in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (item 67-1885), more here.
Character/Part/Color Covers for my 18th Century-Based Original Story, Kopavus
Blue: Lullay Moon Princess
In which the fantastical schemes of a woman sidelined in a political family grow greater than ever imagined with the growing threat of civil war.
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Lullay moon princess, goodnight sister mine And rest now in moonlight's embrace Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth Through cloud, and through sky, and through space
Orange: Left Hand Man
In which an immigrant woman masquerades as a man to join the army and finds herself falling for the mysterious lady who is said to see through time and space.
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Lady, running down to the riptide Taken away to the dark side I wanna be your left hand man
Purple: How Lucky You Are
In which a flamboyant (homosexual) man, a charismatic cult leader forever caught in a web of espionage, trickery, and betrayal, must finally make decide which side he’s going to support in all-out war: his country, his allies, his family, or his illegal lover.
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So be happy you're here Think of life as a thrill And if worse comes to worse And we all know it will Thank your lucky star You've gotten this far And tell yourself how lucky you are
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Here we go! A couple color theme-based pics for my WIP original story!
I really have enjoyed seeing this palette-based artstyle before with one central object in white -- something of importance to each character.
I spent about two days on and off altogether on this project and I’m happy to say that it turned out very well! In the future, I would like to do “colors + song lyrics” for some of the other characters, but for the moment I’m going to relax. :)