Tuesday Travel

 Let's go back to London, shall we? The Victoria and Albert Museum is one of my favorite places in London. I can spend days there. 

I already mentioned, that the first thing we did in London was to go there, and pick up my membership card, and then, while we were there we were walking around a bit. We contemplated to go in there to see the Marie Antoinette exhibition (since the membership card allowed us to go back to see that one as many times as we want), but then decided against it, however, we did walk around... and of course, we've seen many things this time as well.

The thing is, if you want to see the "big picture" don't come with me into this museum, because I am going for the details...

Like the lacing on this medeival dress (on the left).

The folds on the back of this early 18th century dress...

The patterns on the Spitafield silk collection.

The shoes. 

Though the gandeur of this room did not passed me...

Even tried some memuett dance steps there :-)

Even though I do have some pocket panners, I HAD TO try on the ones they had out... 

And study the way it was made.

The amazing embroidery details...

And the shirt...

The details on the shirts...

More shoes...

Sewn stockings

I could not miss the lace, of which I've seen pictures in so many books.

And an other lace I even tried replicating, but now I faced the fact, just how small its scale is.

See the bed? What was I interested in? The embroidery pattern, of course. 

More lace...

And yet another I was familiar with, because all of the books on early lace have a picture and pattern of it.

Back to the 18th century...

And one of my favorite dresses..

I am sure it would suit me so well...

And the back of a regency dress...

There are so many things, so many small details... I just cannot get enough.