1770s - 18th century - woman's outfit with mixed print fabrics (jacket in small stripes, skirt in large stripes, apron in plaid/checks, and cap in floral) - From "An album containing 90 fine water color paintings of costumes." Turin : [s.n.] , [ca.1775]. In the collection of the Bunka Fashion College in Japan. Underneath the illustration is handwritten in pencil "Flemish or" and a third word that might be "Rhennish"
ANTIQUE: Taylor 'Posthorn' - 1776 to 1790s
The Taylors were an 18th century papermaking family based in and around around Kent, England. Clement Taylor died in 1776 having worked Poll Mill, just upriver from Turkey Mill and Basted Mill where he apprenticed his sons John, James, George and Clement (jr). After his death his sons took over the mills which included Basted, Poll, Upper Tolvil and Old Mill in Hollingbourne which was rented to him by Whatman. | 14 3/4 x 9 inches | £24.00/sht
La vêture des Enfants trouvés (3) – Au XVIIIe siècle, le coton et l'arrivée des indiennes
Detail of female employees in Wetter's calico factory, painting cotton ready for export. The Wetter, Factory, 1765 by Joseph Gabriel Rossetti Maria. Wetter had 500 empoyees in his factory doing various jobs. His fabric designers trained at the Academy of Painting in Marseille.
1770s - 18th century - woman's outfit with mixed print fabrics (jacket in stripes, apron in floral, neckerchief in stripes, and cap in different stripes) - From "An album containing 90 fine water color paintings of costumes." Turin : [s.n.] , [ca.1775]. In the collection of the Bunka Fashion College in Japan.