the peeta mellark girls were right. at the end of the day love is about who will follow you to your ruined home and plant a garden there
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“When i first saw you i never expected that you would mean the world to me”
— I love you (hatin)
Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful
oh to draw embroidery like Alexander Roslin does
I LOVE it when paintings have this level of detail, it makes things so much better for sewing references. You can see the embroidered foil covered buttons on the first picture, and the metal purl & spangles, and even the little honeycomb net in between the motifs of his lace shirt ruffles! The dress in the last picture is made of a beautiful shot silk taffeta, woven with light brown threads one way and green ones the other (similar fabric available here) and he even painted the little zig zags on the pinked scalloped edges! A lot of the time even photos of extant garments don’t have that much detail in them.
Also, because I hate seeing historical stuff posted without the dates, images 1 and 2 - King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers, 1771 (The purple & green suit in that one is so cool because it has little shiny stripes made of flat metal strip woven in, exactly like one of the extant waistcoats in Waistcoats from the Hopkins Collection!!)
3 - Marie Suzanne Giroust, 1770 (with lovely silver lace, and what appear to be detachable sleeve extensions.)
4 - The artist and his wife Marie Suzanne Giroust, 1767 (And he’s also wearing shot silk!)
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