NYT WORLD: This Dress Survived for More Than Three Centuries at the Bottom of the Sea
By Claire Moses
Section: World
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 14, 2023 at 02:00AM
Sand soon covered the shipwreck, which was largely forgotten until 2014, when Dutch amateur divers found the dress, almost perfectly preserved, and brought it to dry land. The divers also found a different, silver dress, book covers and what appeared to be 17th-century women’s toiletries, among other things.
The wrecked ship, known as the Palmwood because of the type of wood found in the remains, was found in the Wadden Sea, an intertidal zone of the North Sea. It has since been the subject of a museum exhibit, as well as an upcoming multimedia project that includes a podcast, a television show and a digital reconstruction.
But despite the surge of interest, the mystery of the silk dress has not been solved. Who owned the clothes? Where was the ship going? And who was on board?
The answers are probably underwater.
By Claire Moses
Section: World
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 14, 2023 at 02:00AM
Divers found an almost perfectly preserved dress in the remains of a ship that sank off the Netherlands in the 1600s. Researchers are trying to figure out who owned the garment.
The year is roughly 1650. A merchant ship — carrying goods, passengers and a highly expensive silk satin dress that will centuries later become a topic of fascination — sinks off the Dutch island of Texel.Sand soon covered the shipwreck, which was largely forgotten until 2014, when Dutch amateur divers found the dress, almost perfectly preserved, and brought it to dry land. The divers also found a different, silver dress, book covers and what appeared to be 17th-century women’s toiletries, among other things.
The wrecked ship, known as the Palmwood because of the type of wood found in the remains, was found in the Wadden Sea, an intertidal zone of the North Sea. It has since been the subject of a museum exhibit, as well as an upcoming multimedia project that includes a podcast, a television show and a digital reconstruction.
But despite the surge of interest, the mystery of the silk dress has not been solved. Who owned the clothes? Where was the ship going? And who was on board?
The answers are probably underwater.
Read More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/world/europe/shipwreck-dress-netherlands.html
This Dress Survived for More Than Three Centuries at the Bottom of the Sea
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