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The Delphos gown is a finely pleated silk dress first created in about 1907 by French designer Henriette Negrin (1877 - 1965) and her husband, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871–1949). Negrin was the designer; Fortuny filed the patent for the manufacturing method in his own name, while crediting her in the application.
Henriette Fortuny wearing Fortuny garments, including the pleated Delphos gown she designed. Portrait by Mariano Fortuny (1935), Musée Fortuny, Venice. (Adèle) Henriette Negrin, (or Nigrin), born on October 4, 1877, in Fontainebleau, died in 1965 in Venice, was a French clothes-designer and textile artist.
Their dresses are seen as fine works of art today and many survive, still pleated, in museums and personal collections. In Paris, Fortuny garments were retailed by Babani, who sold Delphos dresses and other garments to the actress Eleonora Duse. [9] In 2012, the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York City mounted an exhibition of his work. [10]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has in its collection [3] four excellently preserved pleated linen dresses, all found in 1902-1903 by George A. Reisner at the cemetery of Naga ed-Deir in Egypt. [4] It is not known exactly how the Egyptians pleated linen, but the material may have been "folded, accordion style, then tied, and wetted."
Woodblock print of sunray pleated folding fan, Japan, 19th century; Afternoon costume with box pleated skirt and unpressed box pleated bodice panel, France, 1886; Fortuny pleated Delphos gown, 1917; Knife-pleated kilt with pleats sewn down to the hip line, 2005; Organ pleated gown, Florentine, 1470; Tea gowns with Watteau-pleated backs, Russia ...
Paper sewing patterns for women to sew their own dresses started to be readily available in the 1860s, when the Butterick Publishing Company began to promote them. [51] These patterns were graded by size, which was a new innovation. [52] The Victorian era's dresses were tight-fitting and decorated with pleats, rouching and frills. [41]
The pattern of the piper's belted plaid differs from any modern Grant tartan. The belted plaid is a large blanket-like piece of fabric which is wrapped around the body with the material pleated or, more accurately, loosely gathered and secured at the waist by means of a belt. Typically, a portion of the belted plaid hangs down to about the ...
A dais or cloth of estate of violet silk, embroidered with the arms of Scotland and Lorraine. [275] Another cloth of estate of "cramoisy" brown velvet, barred with silver passementerie. [276] Other items in the wardrobe coffers The bodice of a velvet gown with a high collar, with sleeves embroidered with passementerie and jet