lady in a green dress By: Kate Davies Designs January 20, 2023January 21, 2023 color, colour, costume, dressmaking, fashion, film, History, textile history, textilesarsenic, Celine Sciama, color, colour, costume, dress, dress history, emerald, fashion, film, green, History, Judy Garland, Meet me in St Louis, paris green, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, scheele's green, Technicolor, textile history110 Comments on lady in a green dress the shifting fortunes of a changeable colour Read More
sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters By: Kate Davies Designs June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 bluestockings, History, Politics, Scotland, Scottish textiles, sock of the week, socks, textile history, textiles, West Highlandsbonnie prince charlie, charles edward stuart, dress history, flora macdonald, garters, Highlands, jacobite garters, Jacobites, Jacobitism, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, socks, stockings, textile history8 Comments on sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause. Read More