historical dress – Medieval Clothing Research

Museum photos: 1584-90 doublet and hose (Dresden)

Nic Extant Clothing, Historical Dress, Museums June 29, 2019June 29, 201916th century, historical dress 0 Comment

Doublet and hose belonging to the Saxon Electoral Regalia.

c.1584-90, outer fabric Italian, tailoring Dresden, Electoral tailor’s workshop. Warp-faced satin, warp crimson silk, weft light salmon silk, pinking pattern with cut warp threads, the weft threads being left intact. Trim: crimson silk velvet (faded).

Dresden Residenzschloss Museum

Museum Photos: 1660-80 pink stays (V&A museum)

Nic Museums, Photos September 19, 201517th century, historical dress, stays, V&A museum 0 Comment

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

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Freely available for download: Jutta Zander-Seidel’s book “Textiler Hausrat: Kleidung und Haustextilien in Nürnberg von 1500 – 1650”

Nic Publications August 31, 2015August 31, 201516th century, German Renaissance, historical dress, historical textiles, secondary sources 2 Comments

This is amazing news for everyone interested in historical 16th century German dress (and later). Jutta Zander-Seidel’s book Textiler Hausrat: Kleidung und Haustextilien in Nürnberg von 1500-1650, which was impossible to get hold of (believe me, I tried) was digitised by the Universitäts Bibliothek Heidelberg in June and uploaded to their ART-Dok server (Digital Repository Art History).

It is freely available for PDF download in two parts:

PDF, German (Teil 1 (bis Seite 251)) Download (93Mb) | Lizenz: Creative Commons LizenzvertragCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Deutschland

PDF, German (Teil 1 (ab Seite 252)) Download (70Mb) | Lizenz: Creative Commons LizenzvertragCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Deutschland

This is not the only publication to download. They have 21 by Jutta Zander-Seidel: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/view/schriftenreihen/sr-44.html

Take a look at their list in the ‘Decorative Arts‘ for example, or at the list of ‘Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum‘.

Museum Photos: 1673 embroidered wedding suit (V&A)

Nic Museums, Photos August 25, 201517th century, goldwork embroidery, historical dress, historical embroidery, male historical dress, silver embroidery 0 Comment

Photos taken on 18th April 2003 in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Wedding suit:

Place of origin: England, Great Britain (made)
Date: 1673 (made)
Materials and Techniques: Wool, embroidered with silver and silver-gilt thread and lined with red silk

Museum Photos: 1690-1700 ‘Lord Clapham’ doll (V&A)

Nic Museums, Photos August 9, 201517th century, Baroque, historical dress, male dress, male historical dress 0 Comment

Late 17th century fashionable dressed English doll, complete with accessories, informal and formal dress. Photos taken in April 2003 in the V&A museum.

Museum Photos: 1690-1700 ‘Lady Clapham’ doll (V&A)

Nic Museums, Photos August 8, 201517th century, Baroque, female dress, historical dress, women's historical dress 0 Comment

Late 17th century fashionable dressed English doll, complete with accessories, informal and formal dress. Photos taken in April 2003 in the V&A museum.

Museum Photos: 1770-80 Robe a l’Anglaise (Kelvingrove)

Nic Museums, Photos July 24, 201518th century, historical dress, silk 0 Comment

18th century silk gown. Photos taken in April 2007 in the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow.

Museum Photos: 1665 doublet & trunk hose (National Museum of Scotland)

Nic Museums, Photos July 15, 201517th century, historical dress, men's historical dress 0 Comment

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

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Flickr Museum Photos: c.1620s doublet (Landesmuseum Zürich)

Nic Museums, Photos July 11, 201517th century, doublet, historical dress 0 Comment

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.