Colonial Williamsburg Archives - Maureen Taylor The Photo Detective Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:26:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://maureentaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-site-icon-32x32.png Colonial Williamsburg Archives - Maureen Taylor 32 32 99869351 Weekend at the Museum: Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing https://maureentaylor.com/weekend-at-the-museum-historic-threads-three-centuries-of-clothing/ Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:57:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/weekend-at-the-museum-historic-threads-three-centuries-of-clothing/ In honor of the National Genealogical Society Conference in Richmond, Virginia in May I’ve selected an exhibit on the Colonial Williamsburg site. This online exhibit lets viewers take a visual stroll through their costume collection in Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing.  A beautiful piece of embroidery provides the backdrop for two choices–learn about the […]

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]]> In honor of the National Genealogical Society Conference in Richmond, Virginia in May I’ve selected an exhibit on the Colonial Williamsburg site. This online exhibit lets viewers take a visual stroll through their costume collection in Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing.  A beautiful piece of embroidery provides the backdrop for two choices–learn about the clothing or view pieces from their collection.  I chose to look at the exhibit.

A caption and description accompanies each image.  There are so many wonderful pieces of clothing of head to toe fashion such as this embroidered man’s undress cap. In the eighteenth century, men who wore wigs shaved their heads. When they removed those hairpieces, they donned caps like this to cover their heads.  They were decorative and functional.

Now try to imagine one of your ancestor’s wearing such a cap sitting by the family fireplace.

A screenshot from Historic Threads:Three Centuries of Clothing

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