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Anna M. Thane

@annamthane.bsky.social

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An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 23d

Aerophane, a fabric that seems to evoke the ethereal nature of its structure, a fine, wispy silk gauze. Here it creates a hazy silhouette of oversized proportions and flame-like embellishments licking at the hem. Late #1820s @lacma.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Side view of a pale red sheer silk long dress with broad sleeves and self decorated hem

Front view of the pale red sheer silk gauze dress showing sleeve proportions and ruched neckline

Hem detail of the pale red sheer silk dress showing the twists of silk that encircle the hem

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Elena Again @elenaagain.bsky.social · 1d

#EastCoastKin #loveofbsky #ClassicMono #appalachia #hike #saveourlands #haiku #PalacesAndGardens

#MythAndLegend

She dances freely
Gliding lightly gracefully
Bringing endless joy

Installed statues as part of children's themed installations along community nature trail.

- Love must triumph

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Tapetenvogel @tapetenvogel.bsky.social · 9d

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iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.bsky.social · 13d

From the Archive: Victorian Fashion – in a Museum Collection (1000 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/vi...

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🇨🇦Rose🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.❤️🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 9h

Cosigned. 😌😏

Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 19h

You can never have too many roses in your timeline

Deep pink rise blossom in front of a blurred greyish sky

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Catlin Lee @catlinyy.bsky.social · 3h

It is like an orange juice commercial.

Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 1d

calendula blossoms bedeckend with tiny raindrops

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Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 1h

It reminds me of one, too: fresh & juicy
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Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 15h

It blooms in a garden in the neighbourhood

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Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 18h

Headdress called "La Belle Poule",
replica inspired by the headdress created for Marie-Antoinette to mark a battle fought on 17.6.1778.

The original headdress was created by fashion designer Rose Bertin and Leonard, hairdresser of Marie-Antoinette

(Centre national du costume et de la scène)

Awesome piece featuring a white wig with curls on the sides and on top a ship made of gold fabric and embroidery with three masts under full sail (dark pink fabric).
The action of 17 June 1778 (also known as the fight of Belle Poule and Arethusa) was a single-ship action that took place off the coast of France between British and French frigates.

Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 18h

It might be a datura stramonium (common names thornapple, jimsonweed, or devil's trumpet). It is poisonous.

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Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 19h

You can never have too many roses in your timeline

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iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.bsky.social · 19d

From the Archive: Reading, Games and Fashion – In an 18th Century Swedish Aristocratic Family (1500 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/re...

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 3d

I am enjoying the new book published by the National Trust looking at 100 of their UK textile treasures. It includes the famous beetle wing dress designed by Alice Comyns-Carr and worn by Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth in the 1880s and immortalised by John Singer Sargent on canvas #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin posed in a long green medieval style dress with long hanging sleeves and a gold belt

A portrait by Sargent of Ellen Terry wearing the green dress posed holding a crown above her head

The book cover of 100 Things to Wear by the National Trust

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iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.bsky.social · 2d

From the Archive: Plantæ Tinctoriæ – A Dissertation in 1759 and Carl Linnaeus’ Observations of Natural Dyes (2000 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/pl...

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𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 @pierpaolo.bsky.social · 1d

Il sole, tramontando dietro una collina ricoperta di alberi, illumina e fa brillare le spighe di pabbio comune (setaria viridis) che crescono spontanee ai margini di un prato.

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マル♡ᵕ̈(martini⁸*) @martini8m.bsky.social · 1d

#photography #fotografía
#flowers #nature
#fujifilm #xt5
📷 ִֶָ continued❀ᵕ̈*

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 1d

The next exhibit I went to was Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast. This was a major exhibit, a rare accumulation of Poiret's works, which made this an exhibition of a lifetime- one of the main reasons I went to Paris this summer. One of the first gowns I saw that stunned me to

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 1d

As previously stated, the next case in #PaulPoiret: Fashion is a Feast featured outfits from the early 1900s that both influenced and served as a foil to Poiret's early designs, as shown in the first case. 1. A 1900 First Empire hussar costume from the Paris Opera worn by the

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Die Farbe Blau @einschwarzesmeer.bsky.social · 1d

Where my mind is.

Light of the sunset shining on a water surface with many Little waves shimmering in an almost golden color.

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 6d

Loch mood

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Rilkes Gärtner @rilkesgaertner.bsky.social · 6d

Ich schreibe es dir von
den Regenbogennestern
deiner Augen,
vom zeitlosen Gold unter
unseren Berührungen,

ich schreibe es dir vom
Madrigal früher Singvögel
in ihren grünen Verstecken,

von der warmen Zuversicht
aller Gaukler dieser Welt

Dirk Schulte
aus "Was du mir bist"

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Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 1d

so cute!

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Jane @jeistormer.bsky.social · 1d

A Real Unicorn Mosaiculture Topiary ✨ Atlanta Botanical Gardens, 2013
#EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend #unicorn #Mosaiculture #photography

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