"My collection". Well, doesn't that sound Grand? Still, I do have a small collection of antique clothing. For ages I've be...

Gee, we started last August on the kitchen. It's March now. Phew, what a long road. We're pretty much done now, and here are the res...

I plan to attend the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville for a third year. I'll go with friends, same as always, and hope to meet other o...

I've been writing under the title of "Zip Zip's Vintage Sewing" since 2005, but not long after starting the blog, I starte...

Last post's fashion plate was for a linen dress. By chance, Lauren at American Duchess.(http://americanduchess.blogspot.com) has just f...

A Translation from Journal des Luxus und der Moden Now, what you just may have been waiting for...the fashion plates and their description...

Muffin asks me to open the window. Below her, the spinning wheel. Click the image to see it all larger. Sometime last week, Miss Bluebe...

If relaxed family portraits interest you, have a look at the pictures made by the Danish Jens Juel. The sitters generally seem at ease. An...

A Translation from Journal des Luxus und der Moden In the last post I mentioned the August 1795 issue of the German magazine Journal des ...

Over the past while, during a hiatus from blogging and sewing, I've been reviewing and refining my understanding of mid to late 1790s fa...

After five fairly continuous years of blogging, foruming, researching, dressmaking, and costuming, I am out of breath. It's time for a b...

For most of my life gingersnaps or crisp-style gingerbread cookies have had little appeal, Spekulatius cookies being the exception. Either t...

Fanology or the Ladies Conversation Fan , a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured engraving in stipple and line. 1797. From Christie's s...