I love snippets from the past. This post about a forthcoming book, The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book 1763-5 looks fascinating.
Tag: textile history
The Art of Innovation, Dyeing to Display
If you have 14 minutes to spare, this Radio 4 documentary about the first synthetic dye is worth listening to. It also shows what you can do with waste products from another process.
There are lots of interesting snippets, like the idea of sending samples to India to test for light fastness, and the new problems of having servants who take to wearing bright colours.
Wedding dresses through the ages
The Pump Room in Harrogate is always worth a visit, although I have never managed to sample the “health giving” waters. The smell is too much for me.
At the moment, there is another reason to visit. Until 15th September 2019, they have an exhibition of over 35 wedding dresses.
Grouped so you can see the back of most of them, they make quite an impressive display.
As ever with these sort of exhibitions, they have to have something arty included. In this case, that is two items: We fade to grey bra-ra dress, made of 59 white and cream bras that hav faded with use, and To know a veil, which speaks for itself.
