Indigo. What is indigo. Woad and Indigo. Manufacture. Distinction. Indigo...
Indigo is a dyestuff known for its blue hue. The color comes from indigotin, a dye derived from the glucoside indican found in some fifty related plants, mostly in the leaves. Of these, Indigofera...
View ArticleInuit and arctic dress. Materials. Technology.
People throughout the circumpolar region, including Inuit and Inuvialuit in Canada, Yup’ik and Inupiat in coastal Alaska, Inuhuit in Greenland, Saami in northern Europe, and many groups from Siberia...
View ArticleInuit and arctic footwear. Cross-Cultural and Historical Overview. Materials....
Throughout the circumpolar region, from coastal Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and northern Europe to northern Siberia, people protected their feet with layers of inner and outer stockings, inner...
View ArticleIran, history of pre-islamic dress
Our knowledge of dress in pre-Islamic Iran comes from pictorial depictions mainly on rock reliefs, metalwork (including coinage), seal impressions, and, from about the second century C.E., wall...
View ArticlePaul Iribe
Paul Iribe (1883-1935) was born in An-goulême, France. He started his career in illustration and design as a newspaper typographer and magazine illustrator at numerous Parisian journals and daily...
View ArticleIslamic dress, contemporary
For both insiders and outsiders, dress is often at the center of debates concerning how Muslims should live in the rapidly changing, globally interconnected world of the early 2000s. Should women cover...
View ArticleItalian fashion
During the Renaissance, Italian city-states such as Florence were centers of fashion innovation. For centuries thereafter, however, Paris dominated the world of fashion. Of course, fashions were...
View ArticleJacket
A jacket is short coat, worn by both men and women. Apart from the suit, the jacket is one of the most important pieces in a man’s wardrobe. If cut and styled well, and if made in a fairly neutral...
View ArticleCharles Wilson Brega James
Charles Wilson Brega James was born 18 July 1906, in Camberley, Surrey, England. He was described by a friend, Sir Francis Rose, as temperamental, artistic, and blessed even in childhood with the...
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