Vintage millinery flowers

Enhance your craft projects with the beauty of vintage millinery flowers. Explore a wide range of colors and styles to add a touch of nostalgia to your creations.
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From the June 1898 issue of The Delineator magazine this color plate shows 7 styles of women's hats with incredible detail. The page is titled Fashionable Summer Millinery. The Delineator was a favorite for women to find the latest fashions and to order patterns to make the items themselves or to have the items made for them by their favorite seamstress or milliner. The pages from these old magazines look lovely framed and hung in any room. This particular page would look stunning hung with…

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This nosegay or tussie-mussie is a sweet scented, small flower bouquet made using vintage and newer flowers of silk, velvet, cotton and/or paper.  It comes with a corsage pin if you choose to wear it on a scarf, lapel or hat.   Since the flowers used are vintage millinery flowers, they may have imperfections (eg. stains, tears, thinning, etc.) Historical Background: The term nosegay arose in fifteenth-century Middle English as a combination of nose and gay (the latter then meaning "ornament"). So a nosegay was an ornament that appeals to the nose or nostril.  The term tussie-mussie comes from the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), when the small bouquets became a popular fashion accessory. Typically, tussie-mussies include floral symbolism from the language of flowers, and therefore may Small Bouquets, Vintage Millinery Flowers, Small Flower Bouquet, The Language Of Flowers, Millinery Flowers, Corsage Pins, Middle English, Vintage Millinery, Historical Background

This nosegay or tussie-mussie is a sweet scented, small flower bouquet made using vintage and newer flowers of silk, velvet, cotton and/or paper. It comes with a corsage pin if you choose to wear it on a scarf, lapel or hat. Since the flowers used are vintage millinery flowers, they may have imperfections (eg. stains, tears, thinning, etc.) Historical Background: The term nosegay arose in fifteenth-century Middle English as a combination of nose and gay (the latter then meaning…

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