#silk gown

[esotericectasy]

Let me lounge all day, prancing around in silk gowns and smudged eyeliner in an artsy apartment surrounded by medieval art I’ve plastered on the wall, reading a copious amount of books, and eating macarons

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[royalty-nobility]

Anne of Denmark (1574-1619)

Artist: Paul van Somer (Flemish, c. 1576-1621)

Date: c. 1617-1618

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Anne of Denmark

Anne of Denmark (1574 –1619) was Queen of Scotland from her marriage to James VI and I on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until her death in 1619.

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Maria de Tassis (1611–1638)

Artist: Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)

Date: c. 1629-1630

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna, Austria

Description

The portrait of Maria de Tassis is among Anthony van Dyck’s masterpieces, not least on account of its supreme painterly refinement. The sitter’s family were originally from Bergamo in northern Italy, and had developed the first postal system in Europe during the late fifteenth century. Maria came from the branch of the family that had settled in Antwerp and which traditionally supplied the post of Imperial Postmaster. The portrait shows her at the age of around nineteen.

[vintagefashionplates]

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-portrait with two pupils, 1785

Lucy, Countess of Carlisle by Anthonis van Dyck, 1637

Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond by Sir Peter Lely, ca. 1662

Young woman at her toilet with a servant by Gerard ter Borch, 1650

A Lady of the Spencer Family by Anthonis van Dyck, ca. 1633–8

Charles I and Henrietta Maria with their two eldest children, Prince Charles and Princess Mary by Anthonis van Dyck, 1632.

Shot silk in historical paintings

Shot silk is a plain-weave in which the warp is one color and the weft another. The result is complex new tints and shades wherever the fabric gets folded or creased. It was popular in 17th and 18th century, of course only for the very wealthy.

Every since visiting the workshop of Antico Setificio Fiorentino in Florence, Italy, I have wanted to weave my own shot silk. Shot silk is a

[myfashionburden]

blumarine spring 2024 ready-to-wear

[newestcool]

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