These free, downloadable embroidery patterns have been inspired by a group of beautiful 19th-century samplers in our collection, originating from Mexico. Follow the instructions to make an embroidered ...
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What did the Arts and Crafts movement offer the world of fashion? Not only craft production, natural motifs and a new style of jewellery but also a more modern template for women's clothes. The Arts ...
This dress’s rounded silhouette exaggerates the curve of the female form, with a skirt sculpted over the hips to suggest the shape of a Victorian specimen jar, an oblique reference to the biological ...
The Almain Armourers' Album, a book of armour designs, is one of the V&A's great Elizabethan treasures. The book was produced in the Royal Armoury at Greenwich, London, between 1557 and 1587, and ...