Ancient Fabrics and Costumes - Le Manach Auction III

TEXTILES ANCIENS - LE MANACH III

from the Manufacture LE MANACH (*) collection
of ancient fabrics and wallpapers, and others

Thierry de Maigret - Drouot Richelieu (Paris)
February 04, 2011 - 2pm

(click on the picture to access the site, have a look at the wonders,
download the PDF catalogue, etc.)

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(*) - Le Manach was founded in the city of Tours in 1829 and is still active. It's the heir of long tradition of silk industry, which started in 1470, when king Louis XI decided to establish a French production of silk to avoid imports from Italy. Tours was the other French silk city, even if now Lyon is more famous.

Dress for Dance (II)

Costume Colloquium : Dress for Dance
Florence, November 4 - 7, 2010

Following the great success of the first Costume Colloquium (held in Florence 6-9 November 2008 and attended by over 315 participants from 26 countries with 39 presentations on 8 themes), there will be a second symposium in November 2010 on the subject of Dress for Dance.

The topics of Costume Colloquium II: Dress for Dance will include the following themes:
History of dance costume for professional performance: theatre, ballet, cinema, etc.
Dress for traditional and ceremonial dance: costume as expressions of cultures
Fashion and popular dance: relationship between new styles of dance and fashionable dress, past and present
Creating dance costume: designers, artists, artisans, stylists, tailors, seamstresses using traditional, experimental and/or contemporary materials and techniques
Historical dance re-enactment: getting the steps and the clothing right
Dance costume in museums and archives: collecting designs and surviving costume, conservation, display techniques
Documenting dance dress: dress as documents and documents of dress
Dance costume and artistic expression: their reciprocal relationship

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The presentations of the first symposium are available for download on the site. You have to register, but it's free.

Glossary of the 18th-Century Costume Terminology

Glossary of the 18th-Century Costume Terminology.
A useful link for those interested in 18th-Century costume and fashion.

Dress for Dance

Costume Colloquium II : Dress for Dance
6-9 november 2010 - Florence, Italy

Call for Papers

Following the great success of the first Costume Colloquium (held in Florence 6-9 November 2008 and attended by over 315 participants from 26 countries with 39 presentations on 8 themes), there will be a second symposium in November 2010 on the subject of Dress for Dance.

Costume Colloquium II: Dress for Dance will explore interdisciplinary aspects of dance dress and costume, this multi-cultural mode of human expression, from a variety of practical, historical and creative perspectives. For four days (exact dates to be determined) participants will attend lectures, see demonstrations, have on-site visits as well as observe or participate in exclusive dance performances. This unique symposium will be of interest not only to costume and dance historians, costume designers, costume makes, museum curators, archivists, textile and costume conservators, dancers and dance re-enactors, etc., but also to students and members of the public with a desire to learn about dress for dance from the experts in the fieldsexamined.

The topics of Costume Colloquium II: Dress for Dance will include the following themes:

- History of dance costume for professional performance : theatre, ballet, cinema, etc.
- Dress for traditional and ceremonial dance : costume as expressions of cultures
- Fashion and popular dance : relationship between popular music, new styles of dance and fashionable dress, past and present
- Creating dance costume : designers, artists, artisans, stylists, tailors, seamstresses using traditional, experimental and/or contemporary materials and techniques
- Historical dance re-enactment : getting the steps and the clothing right
- Dance costume in museums and archives : collecting designs and surviving costume, conservation, display techniques
- Documenting dance dress : dress as documents and documents of dress
- Dance costume and artistic expression : their reciprocal relationship

Find More on : costume-textiles.com

18th & early 19th-century Costumes on Auction

Hotel Drouot (Paris)
June 12, 2009 - 1:00pm

Exhibition :
June 11 - 11:00 am to 6:00pm
June 12 : 11-12 am

Pictures on Thierry de Maigret

Fashion in Detail

Good piece of news ! They reissued Fashion in Detail, a wonderful book on the 17th & 18th-century costumes which gives the opportunity to have a close-up look at the details of several historical costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The pictures are beautiful and completed by very informative explanations on the techniques, fabrics and fashion of the time.
It's an amazing journey into the past, and a great resource for anyone interested in fashion, historical costumes or decorative arts and crafts.

Avril Hart and Susan North
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Fashion in Detail
V&A Publishing, 2009, 223p.

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First published by V&A publications, 1998, as Historical Fashion in detail from the 17th and 18th Centuries.
First published in North America by Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1998, as Fashion in Detail from the 17th and 18th Centuries.

Court Pomp and Royal Ceremony

Court Pomp and Royal Ceremony
Court Dress in Europe, 1650-1800

(Fastes de Cour - Le Costume de Cour en Europe, 1650-1800)

31 March to 28 June 2009,

Palace of Versailles

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The exhibition Court Pomp and Royal Ceremony — Court Dress in Europe, 1650-1800 follows the history of court dress in Europe, revealing France’s major influence from the mid-17th to early 19th centuries.

Over 200 exhibits (dress, jewels, pictures) associated with the great European monarchies are assembled for the first time in an exhibition that will be held only at Versailles.

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Pitti Palace in Florence, the Louvre, Musée Galliera, Les Arts décoratifs and Archives Nationales in Paris, and private collectors have agreed to loan some of their pieces. The royal collections of London, Dresden, Denmark (Rosenborg Castle), Sweden (Royal Armoury), and Portugal (Ajuda Palace), and the imperial collections of Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum), the Tsars of Russia (State Hermitage), and Cologne cathedral will for the first time be exhibited outside their countries of origin.

This event is part of the cycle of exhibitions evoking court life in the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Versailles and the Royal Tables of Europe, 17th-19th centuries in 1993-1994.

Court dress developed as a political symbolic language, whose prime function was to display in visual form the hierarchy of power. The costumes exhibited here evoke not only the exceptional circumstances accompanying the beginnings of national monarchy and the lives of European monarchs and courtiers (coronations and ceremonies of orders of chivalry) but also the prestigious events held at all courts, such as weddings. The dress worn on these occasions was strictly bound by the formality of court etiquette. Each special occasion was an opportunity to adapt court dress with the use of luxurious materials, cloth, embroidery, lace, trimmings and a wealth of real and costume jewellery. These costumes became a showcase for the luxury trade, displaying its technical and aesthetic innovations. As fashion became more important and styles changed more rapidly, so court dress also developed. Orders from European courts placed in Paris demonstrated France’s central influence in court dress and fashion and the excellent quality achieved by Paris craft workers.