Explore the world of golf in the 19th century, including the history of golf, ladies golf, golf sport prints and cartoons.

Step back to the days when men wore knickers and tall socks on the golf course and women dressed in long skirts with lacy blouses. Featured is specialty golf apparel for the early 1900s woman …

Separate undersleeves, often decorated with lace or broderie anglais, were worn with the wide pagoda or bell-shaped sleeves of the mid-nineteenth century dress. Lady’s magazines often supplied embroidery designs with instructions for undersleeves. Here we supply instructions with …

Artist designers of the day, such as William Morris and Walter Crane, employed the Leek Embroidery Society to embroider church vestments and altar cloths.