"Items of personal adornment fill museum collections and are regularly uncovered in historical period archaeological excavations. But until the publication of this comprehensive volume, there has been no basic guide to help curators, registrars, historians, archaeologists, or co…
"Create Your Own Blings" detailed instructions and more than 150 color photographs demonstrate how to create glitzy items from bags acquired at garage sales and flea markets, using reasonably priced acrylic or metallic rhinestones and creativity. Featured projects in this book i…
"Create Your Own Blings" detailed instructions and more than 150 color photographs demonstrate how to create glitzy items from bags acquired at garage sales and flea markets, using reasonably priced acrylic or metallic rhinestones and creativity. Featured projects in this book i…
The author presents designs for knitted accessories that stand out from the crowd. Patterns cover a variety of knitting techniques, including felting, intarsia, Fair Isle, lacework, and cables.
Ornamentalism is the first book to focus on Renaissance accessories, their histories and meanings. The collection's eminent contributors bring accessories to the center of a discussion about material culture, dress, and adornment, exploring their use, significance, and multiple …
Scented buttons and perfumed gloves : smelling things in Renaissance Italy / Evelyn Welch -- From the sacred to the secular : the gendered geography of veils in Italian cinquecento fashion / Eugenia Paulicelli -- Embellishing herself with a cloth : the contradictory life of the …
Renaissance people understood that honor and good graces were marked by being properly attired and by wearing distinctive ornaments. An examination of material life and fashion in the early modern period reveals the crucial role ornaments played in social, political, and cultura…
Renaissance people understood that honor and good graces were marked by being properly attired and by wearing distinctive ornaments. An examination of material life and fashion in the early modern period reveals the crucial role ornaments played in social, political, and cultura…
Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power…
