Remember Franken-Doublet? What was supposed to be a quick project has turned into the long-and-tedious- project, full of difficult hand sewing and problem solving, yay. It’s time like these that you find…
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V87: Period Piecery – Elizabethan Cabbage
I started on a new Elizabethan ladies’ doublet the other night, and to make a long story short, it didn’t fit. I thought I had traced the pattern – Margo Anderson –…
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V85: Elizabethan Pouf Hairstyles
Ha! Those Georgians thought they were being so clever and original with their pouf hairstyles, but they were just copying the late Elizabethans and early Jacobeans. Just goes to show that fashion…
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Back From the 16th Century, with 18th Century Shoes…
My mother and me in our Elizabethans. This past weekend we attended Valhalla Renaissance Faire, as I posted about earlier. It was wet, muddy, chilly, but the wool cloaks, fox furs, and…
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Prepping For Valhalla Renaissance Faire, 2011
I made this jacket last year, from a pattern in “The Tudor Tailor” (there’s also one in “Cut of Women’s Clothes I believe, and some other places). The partlet is also from…
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Cranach and Holbein and Durer, Oh My…
“Judith Victorious” Cranach, c 1530 Something I’m thinking about, but I’m not *sure* about right now. I’ve had an itch, a tiny only mildly itchy itch, for some years now, that I…
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Evidence of Time Travelled and Costume Worn
Here are some photos from Saturday, our trip up to Valhalla Renaissance Faire at South Lake Tahoe. I’m ever so pleased with this 1570s Elizabethan jacket. I’ve wanted to make it for…
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What I Haven’t Been Showing You…
Sometimes we seamsters embark upon a project with such gusto that we forget to photograph and post about it. Mostly this happens when there is very little time in which to complete…
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Time Travel : Goodbye Old Friend
Ladies and Gentlemen (of which there are likely very few)… Last weekend I sold a costume I’d made for Halloween some years ago. I had listed it on Etsy and managed to…
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Travels In Time: Where Has Lil’ Duchess Been?
Oh Dear Readers, if I have not lost you completely, I’m sure you’ve been wondering in an upset fashion why I haven’t posted anything in the past couple weeks or so. This…
