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Journal des Dames et des Modes

By: Kate Davies Designs April 30, 2016April 30, 2016

clothing, fashion, Historydress, fashion, fashion history, haps, History, history of dress, images, journal des dames et des modes, shawls, textile history48 Comments

Over the past few months, while working on the project that has now become The Book of Haps, I’ve examined countless images of wrappable textiles. I’ve encountered many ways to wear such textiles, and also reflected on the many different contexts for their wearing. Some of these groups of images were very useful for me,…

of handkerchiefs

By: Kate Davies Designs February 18, 2014February 18, 2014

textile history, textiles, the life of thingsdrawn-thread work, embroidery, fichu, furoshiki, handkerchief, history of costume, history of dress, kerchief, neckerchief, textile history, textiles, white work111 Comments

I have a terrible cold. When one is sniffling and snuffling and generally feeling lousy, there’s nothing more comforting than a nice handkerchief, of which, it occurred to me this morning, I possess quite a few. So I took some photographs of the ones that aren’t in use or in the wash. Some of them…