#textiletuesday
Thankfully, I could still immediately recognise fine textile tassels when I saw them! These were very plush and delightful. #TextileTuesday
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#TextileTuesday #NewYearsEve silk #postcards from my husbands grandad to his wife
More about the cards and the couple here

historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/post...
December 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#textiletuesday

This fascinating book reminded me of the 1,500 year old child's tunic woven from wool and linen, and the astonishing mummified cats I saw in Bristol Art Gallery and Museum.@bristolmuseum

#linen
December 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#TextileTuesday :
Chair cover (with #Parrot)
Pennsylvania, USA,1875-1900
Wool: Plushwork, Embroidered
Winterthur 1970.1528 museumcollection.winterthur.org/print-record...
#BirdsInArt
December 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
#TextileTuesday :
Textile, “Sea Saw”
Designed by Ms. Sheila O'Hara (USA, b.1953), Manufactured by Muller-Zell GmgH & Co. KG, USA,1991
86% italian cotton, 14% polyester
Cooper Hewitt 1993-39-1 collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1864...
#Fish #WomenArtists
December 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Altar frontal from St Mary Alveley 1470.

#textiletuesday #adventangels
December 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
#TextileTuesday Kneeler from St Mary, Kyre, Worcestershire.
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Yarn bombers #ChristmasTree
Birkdale
#textiletuesday
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Zooming on tiny stitches used to create an embroidered picture at National Trust Cotehele. It depicts the marriage of William Edgcumbe’s to heiress Hilaria de Cotehele in 1353.

📷 from my recent visit

#TextileTuesday #embroidery #needlework
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A camel at the pyramids at Giza beautifully dressed up in its finery for a day's work #textiletuesday
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
#TextileTuesday
Ceremonial Betel-nut Bag, c.1900
Indonesia, East Sumba, Rende
Beaded panels of cotton & glass beads w/ fringe of cotton, glass & wood beads; lined with ?, plain weave; strap of cotton & glass beads over bast fiber (hibiscus or kenaf) core
AIC 2002.929a.1 www.artic.edu/artworks/180...
December 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A particularly good haul at the thrift store, July.
(Celebrating small victories.)

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYearPast #TextileTuesday #thrifting
December 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
St Mary’s Church, Holy Island, Northumberland. #textileTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Lady Arbella Stuart painted in 1577 clutching a mannequin doll .

Tailors used dolls to showcase the latest fashions and fabrics to wealthy patrons.

📷 2023 visit to Hardwick Hall where the portrait is on display

#Tudortuesday #TextileTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The "King's Bed" (Paris 1673) in the King's Room at Knole House NT was made for the future King James II when he was still Duke of York #textiletuesday
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
St Michael's Handsworth.

#textiletuesday #adventangels
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
St Laurence parish church, Ludlow. Banner by Sir Ninian Comper. #TextileTuesday
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM