February! ‘The Months’ by J.June 1749 Details: -We’ll start off with her cape – it’s an interesting one this. It’s obviously ermine fur lined and black on the outside. But it’s the frilled collar style thing at the base of her hood which is the intriguing bit. […]
Read more →January! 1749 ‘Months’ by J.June and Published by Voisin Details include: – She wears a wide hooped petticoat – I love seeing these in action! -Her dress is of a strong red colour – although probably if these are prints then they could get coloured […]
Read more →Portrait Studies: Mdm Maisonnet by Liotard – 1755 We always meant to put up some of the images that just capture the attention when we do our research; really study into them and list what’s seen. This particular artist is always cropping up and Jean-Ettiene Liotard had […]
Read more →National Living History Fayre! Onley Ground Just to say that we are going to be a-peddling our period Costumes at Onley Ground for next weekend! We’ll be the stall with a little mini-camping gas fire going (it gets cold just standing about chatting alright!) and I’ll be […]
Read more →Study Session At the Hereford Resource Centre (All Images courtesy of the Hereford Museum Resource and Collections Centre) Just a quick post… What an amazing place! We STRONGLY advise anyone wishing to study costumes to get themselves down there – it’s a perfect blend of amazing staff […]
Read more →Some Quick Photos! Too eager to wait for the arrival of the proper photos from our photo shoot on Thursday, I’m putting up some of the shots I took during the day. Morwenna Photography studios were sublime – bearing with us patiently. And Gina, the photographer was a complete […]
Read more →The Long Awaited Photo Session… In less than 2 days time, HandBound costumes is yet once more dragging bags of costumes down to a local photo studio to have things dressed onto mannequins and professionally photographed. Phew! It seems such a simple thing as all the costumes […]
Read more →The Daily Mail History Festival Come and find us – we have a stall in one of the largest all-out History Celebration Festivals in the U.K – And it’s a Two Week Countdown! We’re going to be displaying at the market for the first time a new […]
Read more →Caraco and Petticoat: At The Los Angeles Count Museum of Art (LACMA) We were just having a quick click through our 1770’s folder, doing some research on a dress to study at the V&A when we whizzed passed this little beauty. Dated c.1770’s, this light and […]
Read more →The Stomacher-Style Stays Debate: We think it’s become clear that this topic needs more in-depth research. So, please consider this little post as the new beginnings of our research! There seems to be two views on whether the decorated-front Stays that we find in our museums […]
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