OKay you all are always upset that to good things happen on the West Coast (very much true though I think it is the water ;D ) well here is one for the East Coast! It seems some people in
Philadelphia University Design Center, stumbled across a box and upon a closer look? It is extant fabrics from the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries!! They are fragile now and they need help so they are hoping to have a fund raiser by allowing some people the chance to photograph and measure and perhaps? Touch these pieces!!
Here is the link
http://afashionableexcuse.wordpress.com/save-me-15th-and-16th-century-textiles-in-the-philadelphia-university-design-center/ (http://afashionableexcuse.wordpress.com/save-me-15th-and-16th-century-textiles-in-the-philadelphia-university-design-center/)
Oh my GOSH!!!
Cilean
SQUEEEEEEE :D
Amazing! What a treasure to find and a great idea for fund raising to protect these pieces.
Wanna go, wanna go, wanna go! They're so close!
Great find!
I would love to be able to go. Its amazing how little some of the patterns have changed in 400 years!
I am hoping it proves that our Stingy Victorians, raided their ancestors trunks and re-used the fabrics that were still good! I am always on the look out for extant pieces from UK, France area, even Spain because we just don't have them. So this is like Christmas and my birthday combined! I am so going, all I need to know is when and how much it could be as much as $100.00 per ticket, but it is a once in a lifetime thing, so I will be on the next flight!