Costume Historian
For anyone with an interest in the history of clothing, dress, textiles, lace and embroidery, paricularly of the early modern period, 1550-1750
Recent posts
- Linsey Woolsey – a contentious cloth
- The fine linens – cambric, lawn and holland – and their clothing use
- The coarser linens: dowlas and lockram for shirts and smocks
- Frieze cloth and what it was used for
- Kersey cloth and what clothes it was used for
- Early modern straw hats in England
- Peapods and Gillyflowers: review of the exhibition at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham
- The clothing of Catherine Tollemache 1597
- The 1597 clothing of Lionel Tollemache
- History off the hanger: a review of the Killerton exhibition 2026.