#costume embroidery

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

HOTD S2, DETAILS.

alicent's handkerchief.

jaehaera's tunic embroidery.

embroidery of the flaming leaves on helaena's nightdress.

hand embroidery of opals, crystals and precious stones with organza rosettes and bugle beads on queen helaena's dresses.

the lannister house sigil embroidery detailing in rich metallic gold tones and ochre threads.

hand embroidered to create the placement design on the front panels of alys' vest, an organic tone-on-tone design with a subtle colour palette of deep red, lilac, browns and olive greens added to the hand embroidery.

embroidery on alicent hightower's dress and robe.

[mkstrigidae]

Backgrounds? *puts on sunglasses* I don't know her.

My favorite girl Sansa, here to eat lemon cakes and take names.

[thehaberdasheress]

Dearest Tumblr: My business is running low on money. My shop needs an algorithm boost before the holiday rush starts. I would like to be able to pay myself and my two hired minions this month. So that means it's time for... SERIOUS SAVINGS.

I design easy-as-hell embroidery patterns, sell sewing supplies I test and use myself, and have just added art nouveau print-on-demand items like umbrellas, dresses, and mugs.

Find me at thehaberdasheress.etsy.com

And because I love you more than all the other platforms, until this Sunday September 16 you can use the promo code TUMBLRSECRET for an additional 10% off.

(Also. If you just want to throw money at me without any kind of compensatory merchandise, I have absolutely no shame anymore. Here's my Paypal.)

[maxyvert]

Ghost lady from last November. She was buried in my drafts 👻

Btw I have a sideblog where I reblog amazing arts, lovely textposts and gorgeous memes. Check it out if you’re interested ;) 

[heaveninawildflower]

Embroidery detail from a jacket (British, 1615–20).

Linen, silk, metal.

Image and text information courtesy The Met.

[thirstyvampyr]

Oliver's birthday outfit

[embroideryobsession]

Michele Callagher Embroidery for Game of Thrones

Costume Designer: Michele Clapton MCE/HBO Inc

[bananna-threads]

A fun little patch I embroidered for a Park Ranger costume! I thought the little spooky guy was a fun addition 👻

[leroibobo]

when the homes in the depopulated palestinian village of lifta were originally built is impossible to tell and most likely varies from house to house. the area's been known since ancient times, including having been written about in the hebrew bible. it's retained multiple different names throughout history - lifta by romans, nephto by byzantines, clepsta by crusaders, then lifta again by arabs. in more recent times, the area saw battle in the early 19th century, when it saw a peasant's revolt against egyptian conscription and taxation policies. (egyptian-ottoman ruler muhammad ali had attempted to become independent from the ottoman empire, and sought to use the area of "greater syria" which palestine was apart of as a buffer state.)

the village was predominantly muslim with a mosque, a maqām for local sage shaykh badr, a few shops, a social club, two coffee houses, and an elementary school which opened in 1945. its economy was based in farming - being a village of jerusalem, farmers would sell their produce in the city's markets. an olive press which remains in the village gives evidence to one of the most important crops its residents farmed. the historically wealthy village was known for its intricate embroidery and sewing, particularly of thob ghabani bridal dresses, which attracted buyers from across the levant.

lifta also represents one of the few palestinian villages in which the structures weren't totally or mostly decimated during the 1948 nakba. 60 of the 450 original houses remain intact. from zochrot's entry on lifta:

israel's absentee property law of 1950 permits the state to expropriate land and assets left behind, and denies palestinians the right to return to old homes or to reclaim their property. it's estimated that there's around 400,000 descendants of the village's original refugee population dispersed in east jerusalem, the west bank, jordan, and the palestinian diaspora.

like many depopulated palestinian houses, some of those in lifta were initially used to settle predominantly mizrahi immigrants and refugees, in this case 300 jewish families from yemen and kurdistan. the houses weren't registered in their names, and the area generally saw poor infrastructure and no resources including water and electricity provided by the government. most left in the early 1970s as a part of a compensation program to move out people who'd been settled in depopulated palestinian houses - if they didn't, they were referred to as "squatters" and evicted. (holes were even drilled in the roofs of evacuated buildings to make them less habitable). the 13 families which remain there today only managed to do so because they lived close to the edge of the village.

in 1987, the israeli nature reserves authority planned to restore the "long-abandoned village" and turn it into a natural history center which would "stress the jewish roots of the site", but nothing came of it. several more government proposals on what to do with the land had been brought up since then. this culminated in in 2021 when the israel land administration announced without informing the jerusalem municipal authorities that it issued a tender for the construction of a luxury neighborhood on the village's ruins, consisting of 259 villas, a hotel, and a mall. since 2023, they've agreed to shelve and "rethink" these plans after widespread objection.

the reasons for the objections varied significantly between the opposing israeli politicians - who see the village as an exemplar of cultural heritage and "frozen in time" model of palestinian villages before 1948 - and palestinians - who largely see the village as a witness of the nakba and a symbol of hope for their return. lifta is currently listed by unesco as a potential world heritage site, a designation netanyahu has threatened to remove several times.

many palestinians who are descendent from its former residents still live nearby. like with many other depopulated palestinian villages, they've never ceased to visit, organize tours of the village, and advocate for its preservation.

[arthistoryanimalia]

In celebration of seeing the first fireflies of the season:

Furisode with Fireflies and Irises Japan, Edo period, 18th century silk crepe, paste-resist dyed, embroidery National Museum of Japanese History (photographed on display at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhbition at the National Gallery of Art DC in 2019)

[silhouette-cosplay]

Sometimes I remember that this was basically my first embroidery project and I’m like—

what possessed me at that time 🤣🤣

Photos by @sennedjem

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Emma of Normandy's silver gold dress in Vikings Valhalla Season 3

[xiaolanhua]

LU YU XIAO as SHANGGUAN QIAN My Journey to You 云之羽 (2023) – Ep. 23

[thehaberdasheress]

At LONG last, may I present:

New Etsy Listings!

And a 30% off sale with free shipping over $40!

I have new stuff in three big categories:

The first are medieval accessories I've made, that might be good to have on your head if you're in a hot summer field.

The second are collar embroidery designs I've made! You might have seen me tease them last winter, and since then, I've done some work and research and test-fitting, and refined them.

Last but not least, some really fun border patterns, and a new shirt yoke:

And even more! Check it out at:

thehaberdasheress.etsy.com

[mioritic]

"Junger Mann aus Poniky in gegenwärtiger Festtracht (Banská Bystrica)."

"Young man from Poniky in contemporary festive costume (Banská Bystrica)."

Karel Šmirous + Blažena Šotková, Volkstrachten in der Tschechoslowakei (Prag: Artia, 1956)

[mica5fowl]

Me in Slovenian folk costume