#printed silks

[ghw-archive]

Vibrant silk brocade dress, c. 1850. © Philadelphia Museum of Art

[fashionsfromhistory]

Robe a l’Anglaise

Dress c.1748; Altered c.1780

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

[beifongkendo]

A Flock of Cranes, kachoga painting on silk by Utagawa Hiroshige (1830).

[funzos]

Tigers I made at a silk screen printing workshop :D

[zegalba]

Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme Blue Silk Shirt, spring/summer 2004

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FashionFriday :

Pair of silk knitted stockings embroidered with sequins and beads, France, 1900

Foot length: 9.5in; Leg length: 29in

Victoria and Albert Museum T.53&A-1962

More info about the above snake stockings from the V&A: “Exhibited at the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900. Extremely reminscent of Toulouse Lautrec's iconic 1899 image of Jane Avril, with a serpent coiled around her form-fitting black dress.”

[dozydawn]

[summoningspark]

so i may or may not have printed out the entirety of @anonymousalchemist's amazing fic like a bird, like a stone onto three Very Large pieces of paper.

you might be asking, why, fay? why did you print out an entire 53k fic for a video game you've never played? well you see, if you read it, you would understand.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Brown printed cotton walking dress, ca. 1885, French.

Met Museum.

[sai-aeko]

Bird on Branch Watching Spider

Watanabe Seitei

ca. 1887

Japanese artist painter

[the-cricket-chirps]

Katsushika Hokusai, South Wind, Clear Sky, 1830

Andy Warhol, Vesuvius, 1985

[vertigoartgore]

Silk Spectre/Sally Jupiter (40's/50's pin-up style) by artist James Jean (Fables). Source

Artwork shown (in the background) at the very beginning of the Watchmen movie (2009).

[fashionsfromhistory]

Bodice

House of Worth (French)

Mid 1890s

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

[toyastales]

Liu Wen for Marie Claire China

[takunwilliams]

the riddler 2024

[zegalba]

Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme 'Silk Cobra Shorts' Autumn/Winter (2009)