Dr Amy Miller & Alison Beadnell
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Dr Amy Miller & Alison Beadnell
@beadnell-miller.bsky.social
Fashion historian/curator/researcher meets pattern cutter/materials anthropologist/experimental archaeologist - investigating the wearers of historic garments through reconstruction.
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@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!

It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.

Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Introducing our research into a black silk doublet @nationaltrust.bsky.social Claydon House Verney Collection. Stylistically 1630s, our recreation process revealed the wearer as an adolescent presenting with noticeable physical asymmetry, supported by documented evidence of a persistent slouch. #17C
November 13, 2024 at 9:20 PM