Twelfth night ball

Posted Jan 6, 2011 at 20:08 CET in Costuming, Events, Fashion, Flickr, My costumes, Photos, and Swedish events.

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Yesterday I went to Gustafs skål’s Twelfth night ball, and I had a wonderful time! I also met Isis, who had a fantastic foresty costume, and Madame Berg, who looked amazing, for the first time. I forgot to take any photos but my boyfriend took a few of my costume when I got back home. I wore the polonaise with a new but unfinished pelisse (the hood trim and armholes are missing). I was planning to make a matching muff as well but didn’t have time.

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18th Century Embroidery Techniques

Posted Jan 6, 2011 at 19:25 CET in Books and Fashion.

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One of my Christmas presents this year was 18th Century Embroidery Techniques by Gail Marsh. I’ve wanted this book for a long time and it exceeded my expectations. I was expecting something informative but dull with black and white drawings but 18th Century Embroidery Techniques is a beautiful and entertaining book in full colour with many photos in addition to all the hand drawn diagrams. It explains many 18th century embroidery techniques along with a presentation of all the tools used. There’s also a glossary that was very useful to someone like me who’s completely new to embroidery.

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Fashion Accessories from Head to Toe

Posted Jan 6, 2011 at 18:55 CET in Exhibitions, Fashion, and Museums.

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There’s an interesting exhibition coming up at The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum in Colonial Williamsburg, Fashion Accessories from Head to Toe. Here’s what the museum website has to say:

This exhibition features costume accessories from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Women and men enhanced their appearance with the addition of hats, purses, jewelry, shoes, and more. These objects kept pace with change in fashion and present a visually rich overview of the period.

There’s also a video presenting the exhibition.

I would love to go to Colonial Williamsburg some day and I hope I’ll get to go before this exhibition ends. It runs from January 29, 2011 through December 31, 2012.

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Bedroom photos

Posted Dec 2, 2010 at 17:12 CET in Buildings and interiors.

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A while ago I painted the walls in our 18th century inspired bedroom, and here is the result.

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A Fashionable Frolick

Posted Nov 16, 2010 at 10:47 CET in Blogs, Fashion, and Links.

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I just discovered this American 18th century blog with lots of costuming, A Fashionable Frolick.

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Camisolle à la Polonoise, 1780

Posted Sep 30, 2010 at 17:02 CEST in Drawings and prints, Fashion, and Fashion plates.

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Louis Carrogis Carmontelle

Posted Sep 30, 2010 at 16:53 CEST in Artists, Fashion, and People.

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Mesdames les comtesses de Fitz-James et du Nolestin, 1771.

Louis Carrogis Carmontelle is another of my (many) favourite 18th century artists. He was a french artist who did tons of these aquarelle portraits, most of them very similar in composition and with very detailed fashions.

Louis Carrogis Carmontelle on Wikipedia.

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John Singleton Copley - The complete works

Posted Aug 19, 2010 at 11:20 CEST in Artists, Databases, Links, Paintings, and People.

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John Singleton Copley - The complete works is a website where you yourself can upload missing paintings and drawings to complete the collection. I think it’s a great idea.

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18th century notebook

Posted Aug 18, 2010 at 12:55 CEST in Fashion and Links.

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18th century notebook is a wonderful and very useful collection of links related to 18th century costume.

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A visit at Kina slott

Posted Aug 16, 2010 at 14:06 CEST in Buildings and interiors, Costuming, Fashion, Flickr, My costumes, and Photos.

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A couple of days ago I went to Kina slott (the Chinese pavilion at Drottningholm) to take some photos of my robe à la polonaise since I realised it unintentionally matches the colours of the palace exterior. My boyfriend Henrik was the photographer.

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Linné’s gardens

Posted Aug 11, 2010 at 18:34 CEST in Events, Museums, and Swedish events.

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Linné painted by Roslin in 1775

The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala are the gardens off famous Swedish 18th century botanist Carl von Linné, and the oldest botanical garden in Sweden. The gardens, and Linné’s summer house Hammarby are open to the public and seem to have 18th century events every now and then. This Sunday, August 15, there will be an 18th century market that I hope to go to. The calendar of events is only available in Swedish.

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18th century festival in Denmark

Posted Aug 5, 2010 at 11:25 CEST in Events, Exhibitions, Lectures and classes, and Performances.

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September 3-26 there will be a big 18th century festival in Copenhagen called 1700s - globalization, gossip and greed.

There will be countless lectures, shows, tours, exhibitions and concerts, and the festival opens with a big masquerade ball. I would love to go to some of the lectures because they sound really interesting, but unfortunately I just don’t understand spoken Danish.

Click the picture above to go to the festival website!

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Winter Ball at Château d’Ursel

Posted Jul 25, 2010 at 14:44 CEST in Events.

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I received an invitation to the Winter Ball at Château d’Ursel, in Belgium. While I won’t be able to go to an event in Belgium I thought I’d pass the information on.

The stately home at Hingene was the ‘maison de plaisance’ of the aristocratic d’Ursel family for almost four centuries. Now, it belongs to the Province of Antwerp who has restored the castle to its former glory with passion.

On this festive evening, the grand hall of the castle will once again be transformed into an 18th-century ballroom, replete with flickering candles on the driveway, beautiful costumes, and elegant ladies and gentlemen.

Experienced dancers are welcome but dancing masters Veerle Fack and Ingolf Collmar will also be there to guide the debutants’ first steps. The contredances will be performed live by the early-music ensemble, Ardalus.

To keep you dancing throughout the evening, refreshments will be provided.

Go here for more information.

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Museum of Childhood

Posted Jun 26, 2010 at 14:25 CEST in Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, and Photos.

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In London I also visited the Museum of Childhood, which had a few 18th century children’s clothes on display, and a doll from 1780 with a full set of undergarments and even a tiny chatelaine.

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Helt rococo

Posted Jun 26, 2010 at 14:04 CEST in Blogs, Fashion, and Links.

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I just came across a new 18th century blog, Helt rococo. It’s in Norwegian but if you don’t know the language you can always check it out for the photos.

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