#Eighteenth Century

[pintoras]

Margherita Caffi (Italian, 1650 - 1710): Tulips, carnations, roses, peonies, daffodils and other flowers, with a torso and basket (via Dorotheum)

[bananna-threads]

Back panels done, and roughly pinned in place to see how it lays! I was too optimistic with thinking that my 100 squares would be enough for both the front and back 😭 I only have 15 squares (plus one star) left over. Definitely not enough to fill the whole front panel. My guess is I need 50 more for everything including the shoulder strap and sleeve. I'm running out of fabric, plus I need to make 3 more stars for the front! So much left to do!

I was originally gonna put batting and a backing on the dress below the waistline but I'm starting to question that, because I do want the classic quilted look, but it would also make it really heavy...and possibly droopy looking? I'm really not sure. I am open to advice if anyone has some. Idk wtf I'm doing.

I've ordered another sapphire sky layer cake, which is what I've been using--except this time I got one that includes light blues as well, which will be perfect for tying the two halves together with similar fabric patterns. I already have some cool sky fabrics for the daytime side:

As always credit to Wombat Quilts for her Starry Night Quilt

[voyage-of-venus]

Left: François Boucher, Aurora and Cephalus, c. 1769

Right: François Boucher, Venus on the Waves, c. 1769

[elizabethan-memes]

Another novelist among the friends of the family was Jane’s favourite, Frances Burney, who had written Evelina and Cecilia, and who now was publishing her novel Camilla by subscription. A bit like crowd-funding today, subscribers got the privilege of having their names listed in the front of the finished book. The list for Camilla reads rather like a sisterhood of Georgian female novelists, because so many of them supported their fellow author. It includes a Mrs Radcliffe, and Miss Edgeworth (author of Belinda) and indeed a nineteen-year-old ‘Miss J. Austen of Steventon’, whose guinea must have been paid for her by her father.

Lucy Worsley, Jane Austen At Home

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Some strange and unusual vintage diagrams.

[deathzgf]

oh yeah did i show you guys this cool ass coin my mother randomly found on our bench lol

silly little 1791 french 30 sols ( i have no idea what a 30 sols is )

[aviewofthejames]

18C Yew Windsor

[eyesaremosa1cs]

Mahogany Bookcase In Gothic Style

[jewellery-box]

SILK BROCADE ROBE A L'ANGLAISE, 1770-1790s

Augusta Auctions

[pennink-witch]

The linen has arrived, the scissors holster is on. It's time to start the real shift!

[pintoras]

Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647-1717): Five Plates, from Dissertatio de Generations et Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1719) (via Bonhams)

[bananna-threads]

I "fixed" my panniers today 😎 In my first iteration I used plastic boning--you know the kind meant for structured bodices that you can sew through? They weren't nearly sturdy enough for what I knew were gonna be some heavy skirts. So I ripped some of my seams (which was sadder than normal, since they were hand-sewn 🥲) and inserted some new 1/2" steel boning. I also pleated up more of the fabric at the sides so they sat firmly on my hips. I am super happy with the result! Below is a before and after:

As you can see, the hips are much more dramatic. I was worried I'd have to make a set of grand panniers, so being able to get this affect with these was such a relief. The only downside is that I made the petticoat using the old measurements, so now the hem isn't even anymore...but that will be hidden when the overdress is done!

I think the silhouette is now much closer to my original concept sketch. Befitting of a Queen Mattress!

[voyage-of-venus]

Comparison of the Three Graces from Sandro Botticelli's La Primavera c. 1481 and detail from The Native Peoples of the Pacific Ocean by Jean-Gabriel Charvet and Joseph Dufour et Cie, c. 1804-1806

[fiftysevenacademics]

François Boucher Companions of Diana (1745)

[glumcrow]

Sade says bi rights ig?!?!

[deathzgf]

danton and robespierre were the What ?