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Wearing the dress

Vest that Naomi made in the 1960s

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…

England had a strong wool production industry in the Middle Ages. That industry led to others that used the resulting textiles, like dying that was most likely done in homes.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The history of the feminine costume of the world. The beauties of the Japanese costumes." The New York Public Library…

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

Evening coat, 1913-1919, silk metallic thread

Paisley pattern from Kashmir

Buddhist vestment with design of autumn grasses and butterflies (made from a Noh costume). Silk and metallic threads in supplementary weft-patterned twill weave silk

Detail of silk weaves