1660-80 pink silk stays, Victoria & Albert museum. Photos taken in April 2003.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10446/stays-and-busk-unknown/
Place of origin: Holland (possibly, made)
Date: 1660-1680 (made)
Materials and Techniques: Watered silk, silk ribbon, linen, baleen, silk thread, hand sewn, hand embroidered
Museum number: T.14&A-1951
Photos taken on 18th April 2003 in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Wedding suit:
Late 17th century fashionable dressed English doll, complete with accessories, informal and formal dress. Photos taken in April 2003 in the V&A museum.
Late 17th century fashionable dressed English doll, complete with accessories, informal and formal dress. Photos taken in April 2003 in the V&A museum.
Doublet and trunk hose of silk and silver tissue, joined by hook and eye fastenings, worn by the 6th Duke of Lennox: English, c. 1665. Photos taken in January 2012 in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
These photos of a Swiss linen ruff from the 17th century were taken in the Landesmuseum Zürich in June 2015.
I am using Flickr to upload photos taken in museums, with the aim to share these photos of (mainly) extant textiles and dress and make them available for research and study use. They are organised in albums by object and will be continually added to.
These were taken in June 2015 in the Landesmuseum Zürich, and are of a silk doublet from c.1620.
