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Modern muslin is used to make first drafts when trying a new pattern. It is tough and thick. This fabric used to be called calico in England, muslin was the name for it in America. Historic muslin was prized as a dainty fabric for evening gowns. Dampened if you were racy! This type of muslin was very popular in Regency England. So, why did the original type of muslin disappear in the UK?

Muslin was named for Mosul, Iraq although it came from Bangladesh. This left it unfortunately vulnerable under the British East India Company. Britain didn’t like that India wasn’t buying fabric from them. Muslin was extremely fine and couldn’t be beaten! What could be done? Accept that someone makes a lovely product? Allow this to encourage you to work on upping your own quality and skills?

How about cutting peoples thumbs off?

Yep. The British East India Company had the muslin makers mutilated!! “This good thing doesn’t benefit us enough. Let’s just get rid of it and ruin the lives of anyone connected to its manufacture.”

Some more Tumblr accounts who have an interest in history and / or fashion:-

@daughterofchaos @defunctfashion @doxiequeen1

@fripperiesandfobs @wagnerian-sideboob

16th Century bombasted breeches were skin tight at the back.

I feel like this information needs to be shared.

Fellow history lovers- ladyhistory daughterofchaos wagnerian-sideboob antique-royals beatonna

ab. 1657-1658 Sébastien Bourdon - Man with black bows

1532-1534 Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of a Woman in a White Coif

ab. 1490 Anonymous artist - Queen Isabella the Catholic

ab. 1550 Willem Key - Margret Halseber of Basel, also known as ‘The Lady with the two beards’

My teeth hurt and they’re full of cavities that are starting to get really bad, and I know that when I go to the dentist tomorrow I’m going to get all the same questions as he searches for a way to make this entirely my fault. The cavities are all between my teeth, despite my endless flossing. Thanks to hormones I have a super dry mouth most of the night (and a two week trial of oxybutynin didn’t help at all), and because of acid reflux the last thing I eat at night is usually antacids (yes there is sugar in them). Plus I’m a tooth grinder. I don’t know what else I could possibly do to try and fight this but it’s just not working. My teeth are weak and I don’t know what to do, but the dentist always finds a way to blame it entirely on me.

Not looking forward to tomorrow.