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Two Nerdy History Girls

Posted Jan 15, 2010 at 11:59 CET in Blogs and Links.

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Two Nerdy History Girls is a fun history blog with a lot of posts about the 18th century. They also write a lot about Colonial Williamsburg.

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Pockets of History

Posted Dec 1, 2009 at 14:23 CET in Databases, Fashion, Links, and Photos.

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Pockets of History is a great site with pictures of and information about tie-on pockets, many of them from the 1700s.

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Colonial Williamsburg collection online

Posted Nov 5, 2009 at 13:13 CET in Databases, Fashion, Links, and Museums.

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Thanks to Abbyelyn on the Historical Sewing forum I just found out that Colonial Williamsburg are putting their collection online! There are lots of clothes but also portraits, prints, furniture and so on. Everything is accompanied by a very informative text about the item. Unfortunately the pictures are rather small, and I can’t find a way of browsing everything in categories (except the “highlights” selection) rather than having to search (I can’t be sure I haven’t missed something!).

Click the picture to go the collection!

EDIT: I found a way to browse categories. In “Advanced search” choose “classification is” and you’ll be able to choose a category.

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Pimpernel Clothing

Posted Sep 15, 2009 at 20:19 CEST in Costumers & web shops, Fashion, and Links.

Pimpernel Clothing makes men’s clothing in 18th century styles, but meant for modern people. I think it’s a great idea. So far they only have waistcoats, but coats are on their way as well.

We set up Pimpernel Clothing to design and create clothing and accessories inspired by the beauty and quality of craftsmanship of period garments.

They also sell wonderful replicas of 18th century (and earlier) card decks.

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Historical Sewing forum

Posted Aug 10, 2009 at 11:32 CEST in Fashion, Forums & communities, and Links.

Historical Sewing is a brand new 18th century fashion forum started by Madame Berg. I hope it takes off!

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Louvre databases

Posted Aug 10, 2009 at 11:27 CEST in Databases, Links, Museums, and Paintings.

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John Guilford Russell, 1790

Check out the Louvre databases! Not exactly tons of 18th century stuff and not very big pictures, but still a lot of great stuff.

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My 18th century

Posted Aug 4, 2009 at 14:36 CEST in Blogs, Fashion, and Links.

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A new swedish 18th century blog, My 18th century!

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Rockin’ the Rococo

Posted May 11, 2009 at 19:00 CEST in Blogs, Fashion, and Links.

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Rockin’ the Rococo is the blog of a girl who’s doing a big project on 18th century clothing. She has reproduced the wardrobe of an 18th century middle class Englishwoman using only period accurate materials and techniques, even doing the sewing while dressed in 18th century clothes and only by daylight or candlelight. Be sure to check out the exhibition page to see the presentation of the finished project. The process of each garment is covered in detail as well which is very helpful for other costumers!

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History of American Women – 18th Century

Posted Apr 29, 2009 at 18:48 CEST in Blogs, Links, and Paintings.

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Mrs. Alexander Hamilton by Ralph Earl, 1787.

Here’s a great blog I just came across, History of American Women – 18th Century. Lots of portraits of and information about women in 18th century America.

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Shoe Icons

Posted Apr 4, 2009 at 19:32 CEST in Fashion, Links, and Museums.

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Via Costumes, Cats and the 18th Century, a great online shoe museum called Shoe Icons. Go directly to the 18th century section here.

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Creative Spaces

Posted Apr 2, 2009 at 11:40 CEST in Databases, Fashion, Links, and Museums.

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I was just contacted by this new site, Creative Spaces, which is like a museum community, and it looks like it could be really fun. You can search the collections of nine British museums and add things to your favourites, start groups and so on. I have started exploring it but haven’t tried all the features yet. The site isn’t completely finished yet and it doesn’t work perfectly, but I think it’s very promising!

You can see my profile here, and of course I started an 18th century fashion group.

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Madame Pauli

Posted Mar 9, 2009 at 20:54 CET in Blogs, Fashion, and Links.

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Madame Pauli is a new Swedish blog with long and informative entries about different aspects of 18th century fashion.

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Historical Portraits

Posted Mar 9, 2009 at 19:27 CET in Databases, Fashion, Links, and Paintings.

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Portrait of Mrs James Denham by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1789.

Here’s a great resource for 18th century portraits. Historical Portraits is a database of British historical portraiture and there are some wonderful 18th century examples among them. There’s not a huge amount but the photos are generally great and there was a surprisingly large amount of portraits I hadn’t even seen before!

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18th century trims

Posted Feb 25, 2009 at 18:29 CET in Fashion and Links.

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Vivien of Fancy Girl has reinvented some forgotten 18th century trim making methods with beautiful results. Visit her website for great tutorials on knotting and fly fringe.

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IMATEX

Posted Feb 23, 2009 at 16:30 CET in Databases, Fashion, Links, Museums, and Photos.

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Yet another great museum database, IMATEX is the database of the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa. Lots of amazing 18th century clothes, especially jackets.

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