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3 comments:
The accidental juxtaposition of the 18th century shoes & silk military flag above brought to mind a pair of 18th century shoes partly made out of a silk military flag!
http://emuseum.chs.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/468/title-asc?t:state:flow=f0f3d074-855e-473e-aa47-8c4a9b43e2f8
Anonymous, the link just reverts to the general site. I'd still love to see the shoes - could you please try again?
Queen Mary's pillow.
Great that the upper crust did some of their own needlework back then, and earlier. Now, they just fork out a bunch of money for others to do it for them.... Nothing to be proud of about the latter.
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