Matching skirt and blouse from 1927 by designer Józefa Kogut in the Ethnographic Museum #Krakow , an interesting Polish interpretation of the Javanese art of batik.
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If you're working with fabric as valuable as this, you don't want to waste any of it. This velvet Palazzo Madama TO is a great example of piecing and features in my talk next Thursday Wallace Collection for #WomensHistoryMonth , in person & online.
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Newly published by Manchester University Press Studies in Design and Material Culture: 'Threads of Globalization', ed. Melia Belli Bose on 20th c. fashion, textiles and gender in Asia.

Cut pile raffia cloths woven in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century, on display at the 'Africa: The Forgotten Collections' exhibition Musei Reali Torino

Full-time curator post working with ballet and opera collections Royal Opera House closing date 27 November.
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Has anyone ordered images from Italian museums/archives recently? It looks as though, following a decree in April, there is a fee to reproduce all images if the cover price of your publication is more than €0! 😬

We are seeking an experienced, resourceful curator to lead Artistic Programmes at the Warburg devising exhibitions, residencies, public events + more

✨ £49,575 pro rata
✨ 28 hrs/week
✨ Deadline 13/12/2023

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#Job Opportunity #Job #ArtsJobs #Curator

Some incredibly detailed black on black silks in Frans Hals's 'Portrait of Catharina Brugman' (1634) National Gallery plus a fine example of a 17th-century bucket bag.

Claudette Johnson's 'Blues Dance' (2023) The Courtauld and downstairs in 'The Missing Thread' Somerset House the 1978 photo by Chris Steele-Perkins of women dancing in Wolverhampton that inspired it.

Vacancy at Jesus College! 🌟

Join their team as an Assistant Curator Works of Art to maintain the existing and future College collection and to continue Jesus College’s exhibition programme 🖼️

Salary: £26,000 (pro-rata)
Closing date: 16 October

jesus.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/assi…

People trying to avoid the news, seventeenth-century style, by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli British Museum
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Would you like to help preserve Kettle's Yard for future generations to come? 🖼️

Join us as Assistant Curator (House and Collection)! ✨

Salary: £29,605–£33,966
Closing date: 25 September

Apply now: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42591/

Perugia towels and tablecloths, dating from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, getting some well deserved attention at GallNazionaleUmbria

A really impressive 17th-century cushion cover embroidered with metal threads with lace inserts featuring eagles, mermaids etc. At the Palazzo Madama TO, which has an interesting textiles & dress collection.
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📢We are hiring!📢

We are recruiting for a Lecturer in Global Early Modern Art (1400-1750). This full time position, offered on a fixed term contract until 31 December 2026. Please apply or share among your networks.

🔷Application deadline 11th July.
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/73…

There is still a month to go to apply for the V&A Karun Thakar Fund Scholarship open to university students worldwide studying any aspect of African or Asian textiles and dress.
vam.ac.uk/info/karun-tha…

Searching for images National Gallery and came across this early twentieth-century painting masquerading as a Renaissance portrait. It was recognised as a fake by 1951, maybe with the help of some dress historians.
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Early morning view of the #Donatello exhibition at V&A. Reminder of just how radical his work must have seemed in the 1430s and how brave those commissioning the new style would have been at the time. Bravo Prato cathedral....and many others....