Duran Textiles, the Swedish company producing historical fabric reproductions, has redesigned their website. They're introducing an entirely new range of 5.5 cm (2-1/8") wide silk ribbons with pretty flower designs, at about – gulp – SEK600 (EUR60) per meter ($55/yd). They don't say outright which products are new, but I think there are a few new cotton prints too.
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| "Portrait of a Lady", with flower pattern ribbons, from Anton Raphael Mengs' workshop (public domain, {{PD-US}} ). Source: Wikipedia . |
Also worth noting is Duran Textiles' new Articles section, which replaces their old newsletter archive. There are lots of interesting articles, including their patterns for extant bedgowns/shortgowns from Kallfors and Visby in Sweden, as well as their patterns for bonnets (the bonnets seem to be based on images rather than extants though). Each article page is bilingual, with Swedish text followed by English text.
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| 1736 Venetian ribbon samples. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF |
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