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Eighteenth-century waistcoats embroidered with metal sequins
History

The story of sequins: a tiny disc, 3,000 years old

How a scrap of gold sewn onto a royal robe became the sequin on your thread: a journey from ancient Egypt through Venice, the Tudor court and a small town in Lorraine to the plastics of the twentieth century.

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