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My Rococo project

April 1, 2020March 19, 2020 Posted in My projectsLeave a comment

…flowers, ribbons, ruffles and laces…

I have to confess I love Marie Antoinette fashion style. I had a plan for many months to sew Rococo dress. During the summer holidays I attended historical dance course focusing on Baroque/Rococo era. This made my plan to become true.

I got inspiration from these two pictures of sitting ladies in floral dress :-):

And I was also inspired by Marie Antoinette movie with Kirsten Dunst:

My plan was to sew light morning dress so I picked up white cotton fabric with floral pattern, white lace and light green ribbon. I used sewing pattern by Simplicity # 4092.

To be honest, I had small struggles with sewing … however … I finished the dress and here the result:

After a long morning walk and dancing you need to have a rest, sit down on a park bench for a while and enjoy the sun.

At the end of beautiful day you need to have a cup of good hot chocolate in (of course) floral china :-).

Anyway … do you like my white wig?

Medieval embroidered bag

December 11, 2019November 23, 2019 Posted in My projectsLeave a comment

Did medieval women wear a purse? Of course they did.

One of the bag styles was an embroidered bag. For example, as this one below:

Medieval bags were smaller comparing to modern times. They needed them to have coins on hand. Other things of daily use such as keys, rosary or comb were hanging on their belt.

“Brick stitch” was common stitching style in 14th-15th century.

Let`s make a bag for ourselves.

To make my bag, I used white even-weave linen cloth (can be also known as canvas), embroidery cottons – greens, yellow, white, blue and red, also red cotton fabric for lining.

Feeling of success will bring you being patient while embroidery. It may take dozens of hours to count the threads to embroider the squares. (Unfortunately, I do not have a record of my time spent :-((.) However I was still motivated to finish the bag. Here is the outcome:

Have YOU already embroidered historical bag?

Let me know more about your project.

My first medieval dress

November 13, 2019November 19, 2019 Posted in My projectsPost format: GalleryLeave a comment

I have learnt to sew many years ago. I sewed casual clothes from skirts and trousers to easy jackets. And than I stopped because it was easier to go to shop and to purchase I wanted.

It changed two years ago. I have started to dance historical dance. And here comes my first historical dress project. I needed something to dress for my first performance. With a little knowledge and little observation I bought a sewing pattern of medieval woman`s dress (specifically not royal dress). The base for my project was the paintings Massacre of the Innocents by Hugo van der Goes and Woman and Unicorn by Robinet Testard (both from late 15th century).

I used Burda sewing pattern 7468. I dare say it is good as a basic pattern which we can adjust. First of all, medieval skirts are wider and you need add a godet (pointed at top and wider at bottom) on both sides of the garment. Secondly you need to adjust breast darts as this is not historically accurate.

Better design has Burda sewing pattern 7977.

And here is the outcome: