Thank you so much for posting this series. As a textile artist I found every aspect fascinating, the art history, the fashion history and especially the standard of excellence in the cutting and sewing.
The fabric swatches in the Foundling Museum are heartbreaking. Imagine the anguish and suffering, both for mother and child, behind each one of them. At least 2 lives, forlorn hopes, love, loss and longing they represent.
You should look into Acorn TV, it's a streaming service Bernadette Banner talks about on her channel, I think it's only British tv and documentaries and I believe it's only $5.99.
Science Fiction Double Feature yes! And I actually like the contrast of her voice with Ambers. The whole series has a ASMR quality that makes it so relaxing to watch.
I do as well and find her outfits as interesting as the ones that are being re-created - in a way, it's slightly distracting to the series.......but that is my only criticism.
AS a Fashion (and Art I am assuming) Historian she'd better "Bring it if you know what I am sayin'...I mean, I know shes mixing in ummm, do you call it vintage still when it's likely coultre? She would have to have some pieces, it would be her bread and butter.
I love her head wraps! I still can't figure out how to tie my own turban. I also live that gorgeous frilly, cream colored shirt she wore in the Dido episode. Yes her way of dressing is a bit eccentric, but clearly it's intentional and she has a definite sense of style and personality in her clothes
I always did wonder when babies and children were given up and then the mum came back for them how they would know that was their child. Now I know. So sad and yet so history.
That portion of the show, the fabric swatches to help identify a child, was a both unknown and expected in the realization of how difficult it would have been to give up a baby
We absolutely need more episodes of this brilliant series. There are so many more interesting and beautiful garments to recreate and tell their history.
I'm really interested in what they do with the finished products. Do the makers keep it as a show of their craft, kind of as an ad, or do they give it to the museum that owns the original painting? I think it would be amazing to come see a painting and standing next to it would be a manequin wearing the actual real life garment.
It is clear that the presenter kept them all. “This is something I’d wear today” - yeah, we can see your style, we know these things all went straight into your wardrobe!
This episode is mesmerizing indeed! I do agree with her perspective that although the high class garments are interesting and breathtakingly beautiful, the majority of middle class' clothing is in fact fascinating and is indeed what people usually overlook or underestimate. Great job! 👍
a lot of leather pieces survived throughout history. I do historical mountain man rendezvous reenactment clothing and have visited several museums including the Mountain Man Museum in Pinedale, WY. Some of the clothing worn by the mountain man and the Native Americans is still in fine shape. You also see many examples of handmade leather items at rendezvous that have been worn for as long as 50 or 60 years and passed on to family members.
@@rockymountainreseller I was going to say, some Natuve families have old leather clothing passed down that or from 1 to 3 hundred years old. With the original bead work and some fur and feathers still attached hed. The fur and feathers get tattered and rot away much faster than the actual leather and beads do. I've seem some beautiful museum quality pieces in people's homes.
Considering the stuff making up the hedges is rather prickly and slices you up rather well, enough so to warrant thick gloves, and given how bulky it all looks, AND as he's clearly shown with his working gloves and tools ready, I'd absolutely expect this not to be his 2civilian" garments, old and worn out and terribly shitely patched, because he is so poor. But rather, an old and heavily worn and repeatedly repaired garment he's specifically wearing whilst on his job. You don't go fighting with sharp thorny brushes in your sunday bests...
Not sure if you were trying to convey that the hedge cutter wasn't as a commoner as it might seem. I think his heavily tanned complexion at his time would suggest that his trade was primarily labourious and would not be able to afford any proper firsthand "Sunday bests".
I love how respectful they are with the objects they fabricate as well as the stories of people from other times connecting to them through what they used to wear. Very good show. Greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay.
When they talked about the rag business, it reminded me of my family's business. In the old days, men would wear a suit until it was worn out. They would go to a suit store and trade it in for a new one. My father's family made men and boys' hats and caps. My great-grandfather would take the old suits, cut them up and use them to make hats and sell them back to the stores.
I just learned that Ninya also made an arming doublet for Dominic Smee, the young man who made it possible to examine how Richard III’s scoliosis might have affected his physical abilities. Dominic continues his research into this after crowd sourcing the money to have a complete set of custom made armor beyond the Corselet and legs which were made for the television show.
That painting is FILTHY! If it can be, it mustttt be cleaned !!! I bet there are beautiful greens and blues and reds under all that nasty old varnish!!
Fascinating episode! Looking through the orphan records was absolutely heart breaking. I can't imagine how awful that must have been, or what ever became of those children
Everything now is made to be discarded. It's no longer about quality but profit. The quicker it breaks or tarnishes, the more we spend to purchase our new items.
Sunshine from where I live, we never use leather gloves. The material is mostly used in upholstery and leather goods like bags. But we never use leather gloves and especially not leather coats.
Love how the tailor just took the leather to her garden to test it!! But, if they're using chromium tanned leather it wouldn't be a fair test as it is durable in a different way compared to vegetable tanned leather - pretty much the only kind of leather available in the 18th century. Chromium tanning wasn't invented until around the mid 19-th century.
Thanks for posting this! I love everything about it, down to the way the presenter walks (I really need to stop slouching, lol). It’s so interesting to follow the creation of a historically accurate garment.
has anyone else seen the new Poldark? I swear Ross had a coat that was the spitting image of this one. Now, Poldark is fiction, but it's worth remembering that there were many men just like him in real life. Even if the hedge cutter himself doesn't have that kind of story, the coat definitely does. All I can say is that it wasn't an accident that this man and his coat were chosen, and him being a servant wasn't the only reason it was provocative. This painting is a brutal depiction of the forgotten reality that in pursuit of imperial ambitions, Britain destroyed it's internal social structure in the cruelest way possible. Thank you Amber for recreating this coat, to make this all the more apparent. Fashion is the mirror of history indeed.
I can’t believe Amber didn’t wear gloves while handling those books and swatches. Oh well, I guess one more pair of hands won’t kill them. The coat turned out really well in the end!
Actually now a days special collections ask you not to wear gloves because the gloves can tear pages, it’s actually better to not wear them, for books at least, I don’t know about fabrics
It is totally mind boggling how much exquisite needlework went into every garment worn by our ancestors. How talented, those who prepared the cloth and sewed it into clothing, were. Hats off to them!
I just began watching these wonderfully informative videos today. I absolutely am amazed at the work and detail of each member of the team including the hostess. Each one applies their specific knowledge and opinion of the subject at hand and then work so well together to bring us the final answer to the article in question. Oh how I wish I had a smidgen of the talent of the seamstresses ! I always wanted to make just 1 thing, like a classic style jacket that I could keep for years instead if buying new ones each year and donating them because they were not as appealing after a few uses (poorly made) I also wanted to comment on the hostesses look at the Foundling Museum. First if all I never knew such a place existed. Secondly, her heartfelt emotion at the thought of all those mothers and dear children separated by the mother's love of wanting more for her baby. How absolutely heart wrenching. The hostess shared that feeling with us with such grace that I felt as if I were present and looking at these items myself. It brought a tear to my eye and a glimpse into the past of these mother's. It was as if you could see them snipping the cloth and pinning to their baby's swaddling in one final act of love and hope that someday they would be together again. A simple piece of clothing being the tie that bound them together... Just beautifully edited to give us this moment. Thank you for these videos. They are wonderful. A history lesson with style !!
Love your series✨ I think I know a fair amount of history….. and then I learn I had never heard of the textiles to identify babies😔🙏🏼 What a lovely book, if sad♥️
Well a hundred and fifty years in the future if our descendants looked at the way the presenter of the show dresses and judge the society of our period by that, they would definitely get it all wrong.
It's nice to see them using leather as it would have been at the time, and not shaved to a uniform thickness like almost all leather that's available nowadays.
I hope this show continues for many seasons! This is highly entertaining and educational. My Grandmother was a seamstress for our local college and worked hard on staying historically accurate by researching in many historical books and creating her own custom plans just by eye and experience much like the seamstresses here on the show
Amber is exactly like the type of girl I would be drawn to in a social setting. If for nothing else just to compliment her on what she was wearing or her perfect hair. I never tell a girl bluntly "gee your purdy"...that just sounds stupid. But I always notice the details and ,it's a great ice breaker besides.
I have a recollection of a 17th century royal laundry maid having her portrait painted- I think it was due to her age/ long service, but there are probably at least a couple of instances of working people's portraits before this point
Lovely, I never wear any garment without covert buttons , the invisible or hand stiched buttonhole is just a luxury of tailored and quality look and feel.
Were the fabric scraps always meant to be identification? Maybe they were meant as keepsakes for the children, and the mothers realized they probably weren't going to reclaim the baby.
The mother kept a sample and the other went with the child. Sometimes an obvious cut so that the fabrics could be matched, especially if it was a fairly common pattern.
Diana B I understand how fabric can be used as an identifier, obviously. I think it more often was left as a keepsake, one last thing a mother could leave of herself to stay with the baby.
na. I believe it is part of his wrking garments, as he is holding his tool, and wearing the protective gloves to keep the pricks and briars from shredding his hands. It stands to reason, he is also wearing his working coat over his normal clothing, to keep the hedges from shredding his clothing as well. That would perfectly explain the general puffiness of it all, and if it's just a means to protect your clothing from getting torn to bit, it really doesnt matter how old it is, or if it bets slashed, how ugly it is patched.
I really admire the serious historical enquiry the presenter brings us to these programs. She is as much a social historian as a specialist in clothing design. What makes it personal is that my mother served her dressmaking apprenticeship at the House of Worth in the late 1940s early 1950s and learnt many of the skills and techniques she explores in other episodes.
tauIrrydah I know, I am tearing up.....the human perspective is so sad, the 99% of the mothers in such distressed circumstances who never could reclaim their babies, yet they either truly hoped they could or maybe even sadly were desperate to give the foundling hospital that impression.....oh, the hundreds of sad, sad stories.
If anyone's wondering, the piece that begins at 20:42 is Only the Winds by Olafur Arnalds - one of my favorite contemporary instrumental works. Instantly recognized it!
Love these Episodes! I would love to know how long these garments take to make by hand. Are there patterns/books available of these designs that Ninya Mikhaila created?
eva lansberry Yes, Ninya has books to her credit. Check out The Tudor Tailor and The Tudor Child on Amazon along with her page. They give information , pictures and patterns. Books to sigh and try!
eva lansberry Yes, Ninya has two books with her name on them and others she worked on. Check out The ztudoe Tailor, The Tudor Child, and The Queen’s Servants (presently unavailable on Amazon). They are fabulous books on her recreations with patterns for someone with at least a knowledge of sewing and the will to try. The knowledge in them is deep and great fun.
"Bedraggled"😄👍👍👍 I'm shook! Susan at V&A museum is fabulous from her tattoos, to her shaved head, to her sexy brain, to her incredible vocabulary! Not to mention the art historian and all of the other truly inspiring women participating in this episode. ✊
Thank you so much for posting this series. As a textile artist I found every aspect fascinating, the art history, the fashion history and especially the standard of excellence in the cutting and sewing.
The fabric swatches in the Foundling Museum are heartbreaking. Imagine the anguish and suffering, both for mother and child, behind each one of them. At least 2 lives, forlorn hopes, love, loss and longing they represent.
i love being able to watch this show. im american so we dont get the bbc channel. thaks elizabeth.
You should look into Acorn TV, it's a streaming service Bernadette Banner talks about on her channel, I think it's only British tv and documentaries and I believe it's only $5.99.
I love the head seamstress/reconstructionists low voice. She could read a phone book to me and I would listen!
She's lovely.
Good voice to sleep to.
Truth. It's so smooth and calm-sounding.
Science Fiction Double Feature yes! And I actually like the contrast of her voice with Ambers. The whole series has a ASMR quality that makes it so relaxing to watch.
I love the art historian’s voice!
The presenter, Amber, has such a wildly theatrical personal fashion sense; I could never wear such a style, but I admire her chutzpah!
I do as well and find her outfits as interesting as the ones that are being re-created - in a way, it's slightly distracting to the series.......but that is my only criticism.
AS a Fashion (and Art I am assuming) Historian she'd better "Bring it if you know what I am sayin'...I mean, I know shes
mixing in ummm, do you call it vintage still when it's likely coultre? She would have to have some pieces, it would be her bread and butter.
I wish I was as brave
I love her look. I would wear it and love it. I wonder if she makes her own clothes.
I love her head wraps! I still can't figure out how to tie my own turban. I also live that gorgeous frilly, cream colored shirt she wore in the Dido episode.
Yes her way of dressing is a bit eccentric, but clearly it's intentional and she has a definite sense of style and personality in her clothes
I always did wonder when babies and children were given up and then the mum came back for them how they would know that was their child. Now I know. So sad and yet so history.
That portion of the show, the fabric swatches to help identify a child, was a both unknown and expected in the realization of how difficult it would have been to give up a baby
oh wow. The foundling hospital fabric tokens are heartbreaking.
My great , great grandmother was a foundling
And how respectful they are when they refer to the stories of the lives of these people.
Spectacular! Oh and that foundling museum just broke my heart!!! Yet it's the part of history that one craves to find out.
More on that: foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/threads-of-feeling/ and www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/oct/09/foundling-hospital-museum-threads-feeling
We absolutely need more episodes of this brilliant series. There are so many more interesting and beautiful garments to recreate and tell their history.
I'm really interested in what they do with the finished products. Do the makers keep it as a show of their craft, kind of as an ad, or do they give it to the museum that owns the original painting? I think it would be amazing to come see a painting and standing next to it would be a manequin wearing the actual real life garment.
It is clear that the presenter kept them all. “This is something I’d wear today” - yeah, we can see your style, we know these things all went straight into your wardrobe!
When my father repaired leather he would wax his thread before sewing.
This episode is mesmerizing indeed! I do agree with her perspective that although the high class garments are interesting and breathtakingly beautiful, the majority of middle class' clothing is in fact fascinating and is indeed what people usually overlook or underestimate. Great job! 👍
👍👍 I am so impressed with the skills of recreates of these clothes. They are so knowledgeable.
This presenter is absolutely beautiful!! I could wear her style too.. she has really inspired me!
Hedges can be made out of any shrub, but in England I am certain that this man was a cutter of Hawthorn, absolutely evil thorns.
Hawthorn, blackberry, briar Rose and blackthorn (sloe). All vicious, thorny and perfect for keeping livestock inside the field
The sewing techniques for leather were quite interesting. Can't help wondering how many historical leather pieces survive.
a lot of leather pieces survived throughout history. I do historical mountain man rendezvous reenactment clothing and have visited several museums including the Mountain Man Museum in Pinedale, WY. Some of the clothing worn by the mountain man and the Native Americans is still in fine shape. You also see many examples of handmade leather items at rendezvous that have been worn for as long as 50 or 60 years and passed on to family members.
@@rockymountainreseller I was going to say, some Natuve families have old leather clothing passed down that or from 1 to 3 hundred years old. With the original bead work and some fur and feathers still attached hed. The fur and feathers get tattered and rot away much faster than the actual leather and beads do. I've seem some beautiful museum quality pieces in people's homes.
I love the plain shirt under, I think I might make one for regular wear. Tres Chic!
This video just popped up and now I can’t get over the series. Wow! I love everything! Amber has an unique and awesome style.
Brilliant!!!
Considering the stuff making up the hedges is rather prickly and slices you up rather well, enough so to warrant thick gloves, and given how bulky it all looks, AND as he's clearly shown with his working gloves and tools ready, I'd absolutely expect this not to be his 2civilian" garments, old and worn out and terribly shitely patched, because he is so poor.
But rather, an old and heavily worn and repeatedly repaired garment he's specifically wearing whilst on his job. You don't go fighting with sharp thorny brushes in your sunday bests...
Every worker would have good clothes for sundays and other special occasions. Agreed on his work coat, it's purely for protection, nothing else.
Not sure if you were trying to convey that the hedge cutter wasn't as a commoner as it might seem. I think his heavily tanned complexion at his time would suggest that his trade was primarily labourious and would not be able to afford any proper firsthand "Sunday bests".
Love the portraits of commoners, workers, and staff
I love how respectful they are with the objects they fabricate as well as the stories of people from other times connecting to them through what they used to wear. Very good show. Greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay.
When they talked about the rag business, it reminded me of my family's business. In the old days, men would wear a suit until it was worn out. They would go to a suit store and trade it in for a new one. My father's family made men and boys' hats and caps. My great-grandfather would take the old suits, cut them up and use them to make hats and sell them back to the stores.
I just learned that Ninya also made an arming doublet for Dominic Smee, the young man who made it possible to examine how Richard III’s scoliosis might have affected his physical abilities. Dominic continues his research into this after crowd sourcing the money to have a complete set of custom made armor beyond the Corselet and legs which were made for the television show.
That painting is FILTHY! If it can be, it mustttt be cleaned !!! I bet there are beautiful greens and blues and reds under all that nasty old varnish!!
Fascinating episode! Looking through the orphan records was absolutely heart breaking. I can't imagine how awful that must have been, or what ever became of those children
The girls became maids, cooks, and other servants. And the males were sent to the armed forces.
I think the painting needs a good cleaning
10:00 oh!!! That is Marie Antoinette's sash....
Yep they worked on all 6 outfits at the same time during filming.
And today we have fast fashion, which is worn once or twice, then discarded, and only fit for rags.
Everything now is made to be discarded. It's no longer about quality but profit. The quicker it breaks or tarnishes, the more we spend to purchase our new items.
I love that they used textiles as DNA samples - the mother would be the only one with a match.
I just found this show and I am addicted. I am not really interested in what they are making, rather how they're making it.
I would wear the jacket and trousers today . Fantastic series
I didn't know leather could look and"feel" like that. So soft and comfortable-looking. Great job girls!
Have you never heard of leather gloves? It's a beautiful soft fabric. Delightful to work with.
Sunshine from where I live, we never use leather gloves. The material is mostly used in upholstery and leather goods like bags. But we never use leather gloves and especially not leather coats.
Good quality, garment leather is truly amazing. Tough like steel, but drapes like cloth.
Amber’s matching of prints is amazing. I would look foolish.
Why have I just discovered this series?! I am in love 😍
BBC has documentaries and informative news on lock! That's a compliment.
Love how the tailor just took the leather to her garden to test it!! But, if they're using chromium tanned leather it wouldn't be a fair test as it is durable in a different way compared to vegetable tanned leather - pretty much the only kind of leather available in the 18th century. Chromium tanning wasn't invented until around the mid 19-th century.
Amber, this series is so fantastic I don't even have words. History, fashion, and garment construction--all my favorite things! Thank you!
Thanks for posting this! I love everything about it, down to the way the presenter walks (I really need to stop slouching, lol). It’s so interesting to follow the creation of a historically accurate garment.
has anyone else seen the new Poldark? I swear Ross had a coat that was the spitting image of this one. Now, Poldark is fiction, but it's worth remembering that there were many men just like him in real life. Even if the hedge cutter himself doesn't have that kind of story, the coat definitely does. All I can say is that it wasn't an accident that this man and his coat were chosen, and him being a servant wasn't the only reason it was provocative. This painting is a brutal depiction of the forgotten reality that in pursuit of imperial ambitions, Britain destroyed it's internal social structure in the cruelest way possible. Thank you Amber for recreating this coat, to make this all the more apparent. Fashion is the mirror of history indeed.
I wish she would show us how to tie that turban
it's probably sewn that way, but there are numerous tutorials on TH-cam that will teach how to wrap just about any kind of head wear.
I can barely thread a needle and these ladies can do these things with such knowledge.
I would live to wear it too! I adore 18 century clothes.
I can’t believe Amber didn’t wear gloves while handling those books and swatches. Oh well, I guess one more pair of hands won’t kill them. The coat turned out really well in the end!
I was kind of wondering about that myself.
Wearing gloves can make it more likely to rip the pages as the finger tips are desensitised and have to work harder to grip, hope this helped :)
Actually now a days special collections ask you not to wear gloves because the gloves can tear pages, it’s actually better to not wear them, for books at least, I don’t know about fabrics
Good to know!
She should have removed her rings so they don't get caught on any of the fabric, and yes I have realised that I'm writing this 2 years late
It is totally mind boggling how much exquisite needlework went into every garment worn by our ancestors. How talented, those who prepared the cloth and sewed it into clothing, were. Hats off to them!
That coat came out fantastic! The Founder's collection is so precious but so sad as well
*This show: 75% facts/25% clothes/50% 'it swoooosh quite beautifully'*
Thank you for uploading theses shows, they’re so interesting 😎
Are the head wraps she wraps on her head are they already made up or does she wrap them herself with material or a scarf ? She has a great look.
I wonder where the reproductions are kept?
BBC costumes next season?
I desperately want someone to make a frock coat (but make it 2021) 😭 they're so cool
I love the way this presenter looks. She has the most beautiful, striking eyes and I love the way she does her make-up.
@Smileyrie James :)
Another great episode! I love that each chapter uncovers a very mystical and enthralling portrait.
Prince charles deleted!😞wanted to watch how to do the buttonhole.
I am addicted with these series! just so interesting and fascinating. It immediately makes me want to sew my own clothing
I just began watching these wonderfully informative videos today. I absolutely am amazed at the work and detail of each member of the team including the hostess. Each one applies their specific knowledge and opinion of the subject at hand and then work so well together to bring us the final answer to the article in question. Oh how I wish I had a smidgen of the talent of the seamstresses ! I always wanted to make just 1 thing, like a classic style jacket that I could keep for years instead if buying new ones each year and donating them because they were not as appealing after a few uses (poorly made)
I also wanted to comment on the hostesses look at the Foundling Museum. First if all I never knew such a place existed. Secondly, her heartfelt emotion at the thought of all those mothers and dear children separated by the mother's love of wanting more for her baby. How absolutely heart wrenching. The hostess shared that feeling with us with such grace that I felt as if I were present and looking at these items myself. It brought a tear to my eye and a glimpse into the past of these mother's. It was as if you could see them snipping the cloth and pinning to their baby's swaddling in one final act of love and hope that someday they would be together again. A simple piece of clothing being the tie that bound them together... Just beautifully edited to give us this moment.
Thank you for these videos. They are wonderful. A history lesson with style !!
I want that coat and pants!
Love your series✨ I think I know a fair amount of history….. and then I learn I had never heard of the textiles to identify babies😔🙏🏼 What a lovely book, if sad♥️
Wow the finished piece is beautiful.......so interesting..!
Well a hundred and fifty years in the future if our descendants looked at the way the presenter of the show dresses and judge the society of our period by that, they would definitely get it all wrong.
Why do I really want that jacket
It's nice to see them using leather as it would have been at the time, and not shaved to a uniform thickness like almost all leather that's available nowadays.
So beautiful, just brought me to tears thinking about history! That is when you know someone is doing their job right.
Loving this series sooo much I've always been so intrigued by fashion of bygone eras 😉👍
I hope this show continues for many seasons! This is highly entertaining and educational. My Grandmother was a seamstress for our local college and worked hard on staying historically accurate by researching in many historical books and creating her own custom plans just by eye and experience much like the seamstresses here on the show
The reason the painting is dark is because of dirt and dust that gets caked onto a lot of old paintings,, the poor painting just needs to be cleaned
Amber is exactly like the type of girl I would be drawn to in a social setting. If for nothing else just to compliment her on what she was wearing or her perfect hair. I never tell a girl bluntly "gee your purdy"...that just sounds stupid. But I always notice the details and ,it's a great ice breaker besides.
I have a recollection of a 17th century royal laundry maid having her portrait painted- I think it was due to her age/ long service, but there are probably at least a couple of instances of working people's portraits before this point
This is one of my favorite recreated looks
This shade of green looks great on red heads...
Lovely, I never wear any garment without covert buttons , the invisible or hand stiched buttonhole is just a luxury of tailored and quality look and feel.
Can't get enough of this series. Thank you for posting
Man I certainly wish styles like that jacket would come back. How gorgeous! I have an affinity for that era. No wonder actors love period movies.
Were the fabric scraps always meant to be identification? Maybe they were meant as keepsakes for the children, and the mothers realized they probably weren't going to reclaim the baby.
The mother kept a sample and the other went with the child. Sometimes an obvious cut so that the fabrics could be matched, especially if it was a fairly common pattern.
Diana B I understand how fabric can be used as an identifier, obviously.
I think it more often was left as a keepsake, one last thing a mother could leave of herself to stay with the baby.
If it were a keepsake, we would not still have the samples. They were left with the Foundling Hospital because they were purely for identification.
I wonder if the jacket is so patched because the hedge cutter would've only had access to small animal skins?
na. I believe it is part of his wrking garments, as he is holding his tool, and wearing the protective gloves to keep the pricks and briars from shredding his hands. It stands to reason, he is also wearing his working coat over his normal clothing, to keep the hedges from shredding his clothing as well. That would perfectly explain the general puffiness of it all, and if it's just a means to protect your clothing from getting torn to bit, it really doesnt matter how old it is, or if it bets slashed, how ugly it is patched.
It looks like the tail of the coat was gradually cut off and used to patch the body.
That makes a lot of practical sense
Thanks for sharing these videos! Enjoying them immensely.
I really admire the serious historical enquiry the presenter brings us to these programs. She is as much a social historian as a specialist in clothing design.
What makes it personal is that my mother served her dressmaking apprenticeship at the House of Worth in the late 1940s early 1950s and learnt many of the skills and techniques she explores in other episodes.
The redhead could get it any day of the week! SHWING!
to think that i have worked in that castle i throughly enjoy seeing that jacket has been made
Aw man, I wasn't expecting feels with the baby token book T_T
tauIrrydah I know, I am tearing up.....the human perspective is so sad, the 99% of the mothers in such distressed circumstances who never could reclaim their babies, yet they either truly hoped they could or maybe even sadly were desperate to give the foundling hospital that impression.....oh, the hundreds of sad, sad stories.
Poor painting needs some deep cleaning, the varnish and dirt have darkened it so much.
seriously, I'd wear that jacket. I need it! They did a fantastic job!
What a wonderful series! Thank You to all who made it possible...
That coat came out gorgeous! I would wear that today without a doubt.
I wish more of these episodes were done.
If anyone's wondering, the piece that begins at 20:42 is Only the Winds by Olafur Arnalds - one of my favorite contemporary instrumental works. Instantly recognized it!
I would wear that jacket today.
I hope there are more of these to come
“ I’m going to want to keep this coat”. Yeah me too!
Charming!!!
Great headdress Amber
Love to see the price if it was now compared to when it was made before the portrait
Would love to see the Baumgartner clean this painting just to see what the coat looked like as well as more information from the painting
Me too! It looks so dirty.
What happens to these garments after they are made?
Wonderful series ! I love textile history.
Love these Episodes! I would love to know how long these garments take to make by hand. Are there patterns/books available of these designs that Ninya Mikhaila created?
eva lansberry Yes, Ninya has books to her credit. Check out The Tudor Tailor and The Tudor Child on Amazon along with her page. They give information , pictures and patterns. Books to sigh and try!
eva lansberry Yes, Ninya has two books with her name on them and others she worked on. Check out The ztudoe Tailor, The Tudor Child, and The Queen’s Servants (presently unavailable on Amazon). They are fabulous books on her recreations with patterns for someone with at least a knowledge of sewing and the will to try. The knowledge in them is deep and great fun.
I want this coat with all that I've got.!! It's beautiful
I can't help but wish that they had tried making the coat as it appears in the painting. Patches and all.
Same... an episode about what the lower class wore ended with an upper class outfit. Lol wtf
I hope Ninya got the coat! :D
They need to send that painting to be revamped by Baumgartner restoration!
"Bedraggled"😄👍👍👍
I'm shook! Susan at V&A museum is fabulous from her tattoos, to her shaved head, to her sexy brain, to her incredible vocabulary!
Not to mention the art historian and all of the other truly inspiring women participating in this episode. ✊