- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (2 Nov 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0500014191
- ISBN-13: 978-0500014196
- Product Dimensions: 38.6 x 25.1 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,257,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Shows samples of antique fabrics and fashion plates from an eighteenth century English woman's journal, and discusses the social background of the period.
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Barbara Johnson, a member of the gentry, began pinning swatches of fabrics of her gowns while still in her teens in the mid-1700s, and continued the practice through her old age in the 1810s. Each swatch is pinned to a note indicating the name of the fabric ("clouded taffeta," "twilled sarsnet"), its width, price, yardage, and intended use (sack and petticoat, riding habit, or "mourning for my mother," for example). Also affixed throughout are fashion plates from the 1760s through the 1810s, from "lady's pocketbooks" and "almanacks" for various years. Nowhere else are fabric and its name, let alone its price and use, so conveniently matched for the researcher of 18th and early 19th century clothing. Bless Miss Johnson (who else but an unmarried lady would have the time to keep up such a habit!) for her hobby!
The V&A, owner of the album, and Thames and Hudson have done a marvelous job, reproducing the album in full-size, all-colour photofacsimile. Miss Rothstein and other historians have written introductory articles on Barbara Johnson's life, family, and social milieu; the contents of the album; and on the merchant's account book onto whose pages the scraps are pinned. (The account book itself is a fascinating document, and became legible when the V&A temporarily disassembled the album for conservation.)
This is a must-have for the study of costume, textiles, and 18th century social history.
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Fabulous book, worth the investment for anyone serious about period costumes
11 Dec 2010
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During her lifetime (1738-1825), Barbara Johnson compiled an album of fabric samples and descriptions of garments that had been made for her. The full color reproductions in this book are actually sized. Natalie Rothstein, editor, worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the textile department.
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