Bluestocking
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Bluestocking is a term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu, the "Queen of t
1778 painting of the Blue Stockings Society
1815 caricature of bluestockings by Thomas Rowlandson
Worsted
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Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead, a village in the English county of Norfolk. That village, toget
Bluestocking
…later developed negative implications and is now often used in a derogatory manner. The reference to blue stockings may arise from the time when woollen worsted stockings were informal dress, in contrast to formal, fashionable black silk stockings. The most frequent such reference is to a man, Benjamin…
A blue worsted wool girl's dress from the United States, made in approximately 1878, from the collection of Conner Prairie
A former worsted mill in Hudson, Massachusetts
Worsted yarn made from Merino wool
Hermann Sondermann Familie mit Frau am Spinnrad detail