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I have always had a fondness for Dutch paintings from the 1650's and the 1660's. My favorite is Ter Borch, but Gabriël Metsu has painted my favorite dress and that became the dress my project was mainly based on. I also found the 1660's bodice pattern and construction notes on the book Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 2 extremely useful. The dress is completely hand sewn from duchess silk satin, linen canvas, mid weight linen and a finer white linen using linen and silk…

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a painting of a man in red and yellow

Jonathan Becker photographs the opulent interiors, breathtaking grounds, and captivating curios of Houghton Hall, a 1772 Palladian masterpiece built by Britain’s first P.M.

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