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Tuesday, 27 January 2009

God Bless the BBC

I'm currently spending all my spare moments knitting, and watching fantastic programmes from the BBC's new online Archive.

Being a bit obsessed with all things textile-related, I've been particularly entranced by the "What We Wore" collection. This includes an awesome fashion history series from 1957 where half the models are members of the British aristocracy, and programmes about sewing and knitting your own clothes (the latter are proving particularly fascinating to me now I've caught the knitting bug).

You unfortunately can't watch the shows if you're outside the UK, but you can still take a peek at the documents in the archive which are themselves quite wonderful.
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6 comments:

  1. Jo28 January 2009 at 00:01

    I love programmes like that.
    By the way you've been tagged! See my blog for details!

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  2. Anonymous28 January 2009 at 02:34

    Thank you for the link - Still trying to get over the disappointment of not being able to view the programs... sigh.

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  3. Fabric Nation28 January 2009 at 09:28

    Thanks for sharing, these are fabulous. Just watched the knitting one - All designers are obsolete! (or is that absolute!)

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  4. Rhiannon28 January 2009 at 11:44

    On aheme, did you see the programme on beeb4 where Rankin took 7 iconic fashion photographs and recreated them? Totally amazing, and worth watching, just to see how they did it in some cases
    x

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  5. Bugs and Fishes29 January 2009 at 10:09

    Oooh that sounds so interesting! Must try and watch it sometime :)

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  6. Sandi a::k::a KnitMyRhino30 January 2009 at 04:33

    ....MUST....FIND....CHANNEL....(I might be busy watching tv for a while now, thanks..."hubby sighs and rolls eyes")

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