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  2. Southern belle - Wikipedia

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    The image of a Southern belle is often characterized by fashion elements such as a hoop skirt, a corset, pantalettes, a wide-brimmed straw hat, and gloves. As signs of tanning were considered working-class and unfashionable during this era, parasols and fans are also often represented.

  3. Southern Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements". [4] Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic depicts the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. [4]

  4. Gothic Revival decorative arts - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the Restoration (1814–1830) and during the Louis-Philippe period (1830-1848), Gothic Revival motifs start to appear in France, together with revivals of the Renaissance and of Rococo. During these two periods, the vogue for medieval things led craftsmen to adopt Gothic decorative motifs in their work, such as bell turrets ...

  5. Gothic fashion - Wikipedia

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    A goth woman at Kensal Green Cemetery open day, 2015 Girl dressed in a Victorian costume during the Whitby Gothic Weekend festival in 2013. Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the goth subculture. A dark, sometimes morbid, fashion and style of dress, [1] typical gothic fashion includes black dyed hair and black clothes. [1]

  6. Tattersall (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    The pattern is composed of regularly-spaced thin, even vertical warp stripes, repeated horizontally in the weft, thereby forming squares. The stripes are usually in two alternating colours, generally darker on a light ground. [1] The cloth pattern takes its name from Tattersall's horse market, which was started in London in 1766. [2]

  7. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The fabric had turned into peat, but was still identifiable. Many bodies at the site had been wrapped in fabric before burial. Eighty-seven pieces of fabric were found associated with 37 burials. Researchers have identified seven different weaves in the fabric. One kind of fabric had 26 strands per inch (10 strands per centimeter).

  8. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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    A sewing pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto woven or knitted fabrics before being cut out and assembled. Patterns are usually made of paper , and are sometimes made of sturdier materials like paperboard or cardboard if they need to be more robust to withstand repeated use.

  9. Augustus Pugin - Wikipedia

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    Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin [a] (/ ˈ p j uː dʒ ɪ n / PEW-jin; 1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins.