Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

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The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid f

Busks, Basques and Brush-braid

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Part One. The development of the dressmaking trade -- 'About suppressing the Women Mantua-makers' -- 'The art and mystery of mantua-making' -- 'I bought me a go

Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

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The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid f

Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen

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Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores how the jobs of the 'seamstress' evolved in scope, and status, between 1600-1900. In the 17th and early 18th ce

Labour of the Stitch

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The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wroug