19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed
A network for new approaches to the study of dress and textiles in the long 19th century (1790 – 1914). https://c19thdressandtextilesreframed.wordpress.com
@birnamwood.bsky.social
Artist + writer. Poetry! Folklore! Feminism! Medical Humanities! Art! The Gothic! ‘90s Music! Zines! The occult! Collage! Books! Ginger cats! More art! Sylvia Plath! Aesthetics! Tarot! Cake! Bit more art, maybe! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BirnamWoodPrints
@accessheritage.bsky.social
🏛️Loving History: Ancient. Medieval. 17th & 18th Century. Napoleonic Wars. Victorian & 19th century conflict. Former Military Curator for National Historic Sites (Canada) Websites: https://militaryheritage.com & https://warof1812.ca 🏛️
@bernadettebanner.bsky.social
I drink and I sew things. YouTube.com/@bernadettebanner
@shrewsmorris.bsky.social
A friendly dance team from Shrewsbury, UK. We’re fun and we like to follow and repost interesting people. We’re 50 in 2026. 👉No DMs or Llamas please👈 (well maybe Llamas) 😊 Also still at the other place. shrewsburymorris.co.uk
@oldpatterns.bsky.social
Owner of Oldpatterns.com. My website has over 10,000 vintage sewing patterns. Interests: Sewing, historical fashion, quilting, Broadway shows, drag, travel, and museums
@jbpaoletti.bsky.social
I write about fashion and gender at https://gendermystique.substack.com/ I write about other things at https://substack.com/@jopaoletti I also knit. alot. https://www.jbpaoletti.com/
@tinkeringtailortom.bsky.social
Personally irrelevant, Textile Tinkerer, Sewist, Tailor, amateur photographer. I do recreations of 16th-17th c. Clothing as time allows and recently became a vintage sewing machine enthusiast.
@kikikonda.bsky.social
Gen X she/they aroace atheist 🇫🇮 I craft so much Likes include Discworld, Jane Austen, history, fashion history, drag, cats, buying too much craft supplies, yule decorations, nail polish, lego
@eleanormedhurst.bsky.social
Lesbian fashion historian, writer, lecturer 💖☀️ http://dressingdykes.com 📚 ‘Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion’ out now! 📍Brighton, UK.
@mcrclaire.bsky.social
Cultural and social historian of 19th and 20th Century. Mostly researches Victorian and Edwardian theatre and periodicals in Manchester. Historical Pantomime. Public Engagement. Fashion and costume history. Arty stuff. Foodie. Nature.
@msherstorian.bsky.social
Public Historian, Genealogist, and Historian. Research Focus: American Revolution, America 250, Embroidery and Sewing, Historic Fashion. Pet Mom to Quincy, Aziraphale, Winifred Sanderson, and Yadi. Disabled Girly Trying to Survive.
@drkadian.bsky.social
Future focused lingerie Designer & Wearables Researcher @KDN R&D Atelier | Bra Patent Historian . Interest: Bra Wearables (Smart bras) | 3D-Printed fashion | Fashion Tech |Experience-centred design (She/Her/Dr)
@sheilaghquaile.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC #textiles, #design, and #art; #Scotland, #Britain, and the #BritishEmpire. • Adjunct Prof., University of Prince Edward Island. • Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
@jbhist.bsky.social
Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
@magalianb.bsky.social
Dress & Textile Historian and Curator / Cambodia’s materialities of conflict / Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The American University of Paris / guest scholar Centre for Textile Research
@profcathharper.bsky.social
Acting Provost & Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education), British University in Egypt. Former DVC (Chichester & UCA). Chair Professor, Woxsen University, India. Co-Editor: TEXTILE: Cloth&Culture (T&F) Artist, Writer, Textiles Irish European in Cairo, Egypt ☘
@historyunlaced.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Queen’s/Durham, working on gift exchange, dress, and sociability in mid-19th century Britain! she/her
@carscott.bsky.social
Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
@dallasnagata.bsky.social
Semi-retired photographer, sewing & textile enthusiast, embroidery hobbyist, aspiring fashion designer, casual artist, degenerate gamer. 📍Honolulu, Hawaii
@karolinalaskowska.bsky.social
Creator of fine lingerie & couture corsetry. Founder & director of The Underpinnings Museum. https://karolinalaskowska.com https://patreon.com/karolinalaskowska
@bronwync.bsky.social
Dress historian and historical dressmaker esp. 19th-early 20th centuries every day dress | Spinner, weaver, knitter, quilter, maker of things | Also novelist (as Bronwyn Parry | Australian | Social justice matters stitchinghistory.com bronwynparry.com
@heritagehistoryher.bsky.social
Freelance Heritage Professional ✍️ Focused on identity, cultural context and historical making, I combine research and engagement experience ❤️
@vickyhaddock.bsky.social
Dress and design historian. Museum professional. DATS Secretary. Views my own.
@cravingtea.bsky.social
38. CLE. Spoonie. Ally. 💙 Admirer of doggos, 90s nostalgia, TV & film (horror, sci-fi, period), music, books, board games, art, museums, vintage beauty & fashion, interior design, antiques, gardens, storms, somatics, swimming, & Guardians baseball.
@stitchflourish.bsky.social
🧵Sewing teacher and enthusiast. 🪡Interested in how the history of sewing and making can offer us meaning today. she/her stitchflourish.com
@kariebookish.bsky.social
I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴🇩🇰🏳️🌈 These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
@cemathieson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey. Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies. Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
@eldergoth.bsky.social
Medieval dress historian 1200-1500. Creative practice researcher: re-creating historic (medieval) dress as academic practice They/them. Grimm fairy tales fancier. And lots more, but we shall focus on that bit, shan't we? Also, in Scotland. Plus bilingual.
@wilderarthist.bsky.social
Sullivan Collection Curator, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century https://wilderarthist.wordpress.com
@danielledove.bsky.social
Surrey Future Fellow & Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey | 📚 Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction | currently researching second-hand clothes and sustainability in 19C | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/danielle-mariann-dove
@alliethinks.bsky.social
Likes history, genealogy, art, movies, small furry animals and terrible jokes. Possesses a (mostly) logical mind and a vivid imagination. Born and rared in Belfast, and back there after wandering round Scotland and London.
@jennieanderson.bsky.social
www.jennieanderson.co.uk Reconstruction Artist, Archaeological Illustrator, designer & maker, erstwhile textile artist, yarn-art-nerd, dreamer, thinker, longbow archer, budgie mum, plant rescuer.
@sallytuckett.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
@amywilsonstorey.bsky.social
18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com Babiesinmuseums.com
@delaycara.bsky.social
Historian of reproduction and women's health studying abortion in Ireland and the American south. WGST professor at the University of South Carolina
@juliahauser.bsky.social
Entangled history of Europe,South Asia and the Middle East. "German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill, 2015). "A Taste for Purity. An Entangled History of Vegetarianism"(NY:Columbia University Press, 2024). https://www.julia-hauser.de
@elizacubitt.bsky.social
Occasional Victorianist (urban literature, cultural + environmental history). Bad autobiographer.
@rococo-reinette.bsky.social
Budding art historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Looking to move to the UK permanently soon, hopefully to pursue an MA in Historic Interiors & Decorative Arts. Also love English country houses, natural history, and tornadoes. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
@nicdaisy.bsky.social
🪡 B.A. Art history & History. Historic fashion, art, old ruins, churches, antiques, gardening & music fan... LLB student & seamstress. 🐝🐨 🦜🐶🐱 You may know me as @plummie9 on the bird.
@archivewhg.bsky.social
Curator at Winterbourne House and Garden, Birmingham, posting about collections, archives, The Winterbourne Press, University of Birmingham Herbarium www.winterbourne.org.uk
@sandralawrence.bsky.social
Author, MouldLark & Scribehound. Enthused by Victorian gardeners, Noir femmes fatales, Arthurian legend, magic lanterns, weird folklore & rotting trunks. www.SandraLawrence.com. www.MissWillmottsGhosts.com. Rep'd by @elladkahn at www.dkwlitagency.co.uk.
@oceanicing.bsky.social
Assistant Curator Australian National Maritime Museum, loves lighthouses and ocean liners, vintage and antique clothing collector, historian, 1920s aesthetic, literature and art lover, silent film watcher and chihuahua attendant
@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social
Specializing in the C19/C20, historian uncovering the hidden histories of how science & tech have transformed our lives, especially beauty practices. https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_
@webbles.bsky.social
Hopeful Bluesky novice and x-escapee. Fleeing the right, Brexit apologists and all things nonsense and hateful. Life- long learner, champion of little people and herder of cats. Very friendly on a good day. Could today be a good day? Possibly.
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you) History of #WomenInSTEM Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
@purrdence.bsky.social
I am here! Cats! Bucky Barnes! Cats! Dr Who! Cats! Ms Marvel! Cats! Star Wars! Cats! MCU! Cats! Japan! Cats! Knitting! Cats! Sumo! Cats! WW2 History!