Yōshū (Toyohara) Chikanobu, sewing of Western clothes for high ranking ladies (Empress Shōkun promoting Western modes of dress), 1887, trytych of polychrome woodblock prints, ink and color on paper
Mississippi delegate Kelly Jacobs used a photograph taken by official White House photographer Pete Souza, manipulating its orientation and color, and then had the design custom printed. She wore this dress at the Democratic National Convention in…
CAPTION Nazca. Mantle ("The Paracas Textile"), 100-300 C.E. Cotton, camelid fiber, textile: 58 1/4 x 24 1/2 in. (148 x 62.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, John Thomas Underwood Memorial Fund, 38.121 . See…