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Emma Frost
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Tailor, textile historian and folk costume nerd.
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Two days full of 19th century folk costume, a camera and a digital collection database. Now some of the things Sätergläntans collecions are available on the net! Here is one of them.

#folkdräkt #folkcostume #sätergläntan #digitaltmuseim

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Hemslöjdens Samlingar
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January 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Giacomo Ceruti, Girls Working on Pillow Lace, 1720s, Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm (Private collection). Note the girl in the center reading to the others.
"The painting depicts a group of young women in full length, modestly dressed and seated on simple wicker chairs, who are making pillow lace in a bare room without windows or furnishings. The "sewing school," a widespread theme in genre painting of the period, was most likely developed as such by the Danish artist Bernhard Keil (1624-1687), known as Monsù Bernardo, who was active in northern Italy and who repeatedly treated the subject as an allegory of the senses of touch and sight." _WGA
January 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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En rätt nördig beställning, handsydd med historiska tekniker men ändå helt ohistoriskt plagg.

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#handsömnad #historisksömnad #handsewing #historicalsewing
En till (o)modern överdel
För ett tag sedan handsydde jag en överdel av ett tyg som Marie Ekstedt Bersing hade vävt. Den överdelen var lite speciell, för förutsättningarna när jag skulle sy var utmanande: Jag skulle sy den …
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January 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
frostemma.bsky.social
19th century folk costume skirt with bodice, from Sollerön, Dalecarlia (Sweden).
January 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM