swansdown

Fascinating apparitions flitted through his dreams; head-dresses laden with flowers, snowy shoulders enveloped in swansdown capes, supple forms imprisoned in muslin or satin: such alluring phantoms fluttered their gauze wings before Raymon's heavy, burning eyes; but he had seen these peris only in the perfumed whirl of the ballroom.

Indiana 1900

A twill made by running both warp and filling under one and over three threads is called a swansdown twill and the reverse is known as the crow weave.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

Our third and last plate makes a nod to the weather: -Round cambric dress; bloom coloured mantle, trimmed with swansdown, but the same colour.

Regency Fashion - February Michele Ann Young 2009

Our third and last plate makes a nod to the weather: -Round cambric dress; bloom coloured mantle, trimmed with swansdown, but the same colour.

Archive 2009-02-01 Michele Ann Young 2009

A robe of amaranthus figured sarsnet, made to sit high in the neck, with a full cuff of lace; long sleeves with short loose tops trimmed with swansdown.

Regency Fashion ~ April Michele Ann Young 2009

I understand that London is buried under snow today, so I am sure a bit of swansdown wouldn't go amiss.

Regency Fashion - February Michele Ann Young 2009

And if we were dressing in swansdown and fur in 1810. outside in 1817 we were looking like this:

Archive 2009-04-01 Michele Ann Young 2009

I understand that London is buried under snow today, so I am sure a bit of swansdown wouldn't go amiss.

Archive 2009-02-01 Michele Ann Young 2009

A robe of amaranthus figured sarsnet, made to sit high in the neck, with a full cuff of lace; long sleeves with short loose tops trimmed with swansdown.

Archive 2009-04-01 Michele Ann Young 2009

And if we were dressing in swansdown and fur in 1810. outside in 1817 we were looking like this:

Regency Fashion ~ April Michele Ann Young 2009