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"textiles"

Jul 26, 2018
  • hats
  • Narragansett
  • Newport
  • Quakerism
  • Quakers
  • religion
  • textiles
  • women

Hat Honor

According to the Guide to the Records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) in New England the Society of Friends, largely … Continue reading Hat Honor

Mar 3, 2016
  • #ShoeStories
  • 18th century
  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • costume
  • fashion
  • john brown house museum
  • style
  • textiles

Best Foot Forward

These delightful little slippers were worn by Frances Mary Eldredge of Brooklyn, Connecticut at her marriage to Dr. Daniel Lyman … Continue reading Best Foot Forward

Oct 31, 2013
  • 18th century
  • accounts
  • clothing
  • costume
  • Enos Hitchcock
  • Levi Burr
  • MSS 78
  • primary source research
  • providence
  • rhode island
  • textiles

Object Thursday: Accounting for Overhalls

The Reverend Enos Hitchcock is an interesting figure, not only for his role as a Continental Army chaplain during the … Continue reading Object Thursday: Accounting for Overhalls

Oct 17, 2013
  • 18th century
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Brief Encounter
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • costume
  • embroidery
  • Faith & Freedom
  • Gallery Night
  • Grenadiers
  • military history
  • textiles

Object Thursday: Grenadier's Caps at Gallery Night

Just back from conservation and display in Boston, tonight’s Brief Encounter will feature the ca. 1745 British Grenadier’s cap from … Continue reading Object Thursday: Grenadier's Caps at Gallery Night

Jun 21, 2013
  • childhood
  • children
  • embroidery
  • girls
  • rhode island
  • samplers
  • textiles

Object Thursday: A Stitch in Time

Samplers invoke mixed reactions from people, they either love them, they hate them or they have never heard of them. … Continue reading Object Thursday: A Stitch in Time

Mar 28, 2013
  • Brown & Sharpe
  • costume
  • Gibbs & Wilcox
  • Machines
  • Manufacturing
  • Sewing
  • textiles

Object Thursday: Sewing with Brown and Sharpe

This small, precisely engineered, beautiful example of Victorian engineering is a Wilcox & Gibbs sewing machine.  As an object its … Continue reading Object Thursday: Sewing with Brown and Sharpe

Mar 14, 2013
  • clothing
  • costume
  • design
  • events
  • john brown house
  • providence
  • rack cards
  • rhode island historical society
  • textiles

Object Thursday: Linen Corsets and Leather Pants

It’s not your typical Casual Friday, but it was a Wonderful Wednesday morning. Dana Signe Munroe, Justin Squizzero and I … Continue reading Object Thursday: Linen Corsets and Leather Pants

Dec 27, 2012
  • costume
  • textiles
  • Textiles: Tools and Equipment

Object Thursdays – Small Netting Shuttles

Small shuttles made of bone, ivory, wood, silver and other metals can be found in the sewing boxes of women … Continue reading Object Thursdays – Small Netting Shuttles

Nov 29, 2012
  • industry
  • labor
  • recreation
  • textiles

Object Thursdays- The Foot Race

If you are a member of RIHS you may recognize the photograph here from our recent annual campaign postcard. Perhaps … Continue reading Object Thursdays- The Foot Race

Nov 1, 2012
  • clothing
  • collections
  • costume
  • embroidery
  • textiles

Object Thursdays – Pocketbook

Pocketbooks, quite literally a book shaped object with a pocket (or two or more), from the 17th through 19th centuries … Continue reading Object Thursdays – Pocketbook

Sep 10, 2012
  • clothing
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • costume
  • quilted petticoats
  • textiles

Framing a Plan

This coming weekend, I’ll be joining in at the Coggeshall Farm Harvest Fair, along with RIHS Registrar Dana Signe Munroe. … Continue reading Framing a Plan

Mar 23, 2012
  • clothing
  • costume
  • housecleaning
  • john brown house
  • paintings
  • textiles

Crazy Corsets

Technically, it’s not a corset. The garment driving me mad is a set of stays patterned from an original in … Continue reading Crazy Corsets

Dec 23, 2011
  • 18th century
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • costume
  • embroidery
  • free pocket pattern
  • pocket
  • textiles

What's in a Pocket?

Lucy Lockett lost her pocket Kitty Fisher found it Not a penny was there in it Only ribbon round it … Continue reading What's in a Pocket?

Nov 23, 2011
  • children
  • clothing
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • rhode island
  • textiles

One for the Little Boy

At an event commemorating the 235th anniversary of the Fall of Fort Lee in New Jersey, I watched the re-enactors’ … Continue reading One for the Little Boy

Nov 3, 2010
  • bindings
  • textiles

Leather and Textiles

Two quick notes on recent and upcoming events at the Historical Society: First, space is still available for Saturday’s  textile … Continue reading Leather and Textiles

May 26, 2010
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Independence Day
  • maritime
  • textiles

Feel the Burn

As we begin the season of celebrating Gaspee Days (6 May to 13 June)—complete with children dressed as gravediggers—, here’s … Continue reading Feel the Burn

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