I finally got around to making a mock-up of the jacket pattern I scaled up last year. I thought it would be fun to see the jacket straight from the scaled up pattern on a body. I’m wearing it over my Elizabethan shirt, kirtle and red petticoat, it is just pinned and basted together in… Read More Margaret Layton’s Jacket Pattern Mocked Up.
Based on several patterns from Pattern of Fashion 4, this is a simplified version of the gored and gusseted shirt patterns. I drew this up for a friend just learning to sew, so there are fewer pieces to deal with. Each grid square equals 1 inch, drafted for 45 inch wide fabric and will take about 3… Read More Simplified Tudor or Elizabethan Shirt Pattern
Since getting The Queen’s Servant’s I’ve been coveting the pointed hood with a sort of fiendish glee, it also might be an under layer to the strange headdress in Holbein the Younger’s drawing. A month ago I scaled up the pattern and made a mock-up. It was huge, it devoured my head. I have a normal… Read More The Queen’s Servants Pointed Hood, or my Induction into a Secret Gnome Society.
Write up and photos are here
I’ve added these to my “things to read” list. http://earlymodernengland.com/2011/10/sumptuary-legislation-and-the-fabric-construction-of-national-identity/ http://earlymodernengland.com/2011/10/the-education-of-princess-mary-tudor/ http://earlymodernengland.com/2012/01/a-crisis-in-regal-identity-the-dichotomy-between-levinia-teerlinc%E2%80%99s-1520-1576-private-and-public-images-of-queen-elizabeth-i-1533-1603/ http://earlymodernengland.com/2012/06/icons-of-divinity-portraits-of-elizabeth-i/ http://earlymodernengland.com/2012/05/rainbow-for-a-reign-the-colours-of-a-queens-wardrobe/
From a recent Christie’s auction, Follower of Francesco Salviati del Rossi Portrait of a Lady.
A round-up of some interesting costume/textile articles and theses I’ve come across the past week. Of Crymsen Tissue: The Construction of a Queen. Identity, Legitimacy and the Wardrobe of Mary Tudor The Cheapside Horde English Embroidery of the Late Tudor and Stuart Eras ‘The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England Texts and Textiles:… Read More Interesting Costume Related Articles
18 eyelets left to go.
I’ve been sick the past week with one of those hit you in the face colds, I haven’t been able to sew or do much else. It is finally clearing up and I can sit at the computer without a sinus headache starting every ten minutes. Stuff on my summer sewing list: Final bits… Read More Sewing Projects on my Plate