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Artifacts - Personal Items/Clothing. Click an artifact's image or name to view it. These four objects (tobacco bag, red slate gorget, bullet or shot pouch, and sash) were given to Stephen Williams in the mid-18th century by Arosen, Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams's husband.
- Historic Documents
The Geneva Bible, a complete English translation of the...
- Household Objects
This cast-iron kettle or cooking pot dates from the late...
- Tools
Artifacts - Tools Click an artifact's image or name to view...
- Military Objects
This 17th-century weapon was designed for use either as a...
- Portraits/Pictures
Artifacts - Portraits/Pictures Click an artifact's image or...
- Sash
Finger-woven clothing accessories such as sashes, straps,...
- Pocket
Women's and girl's pockets in the 18th century were not...
- English Shoe
This everyday shoe from the late 17th century is a latchet...
- Historic Documents
During the seventeenth century, flower petals and leaves were among the many details created in needle lace and attached to the embroidered motifs, often in combination with metal elements. Detached needle lace was most often worked in variations of the buttonhole stitch.
Artifacts recovered from the wreck include two unique examples of 17th-century clothing, one a satin silk damask dress such as would have been worn by the very wealthy for everyday occasions and the other a silk and silver wedding dress.
Apr 20, 2016 · But recently, a group of divers found something amazing buried under the Wadden Sea: a 17th-century chest containing a surprisingly well-preserved collection of clothing, books and other...
Almost 100 iron and copper alloy clothing hooks and eyes have been recovered from archaeological contexts which span 1607-1699. Three silver clothing hooks have also been recovered, likely dating to the second half of the 17th century.
A few bodkins have been found on 17th-century archaeological sites in Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Massachusetts. A total of 12 bodkins or bodkin fragments have been found from Jamestown, made from bone, copper alloy, or silver.
At the turn of the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, one of the most startling changes in taste and fashion occurred, which was immediately mirrored in armor and can best be witnessed in the German harness of the period.
