1760s – Dress in a Week Challenge Having spent the last few years solely working on replicas, this year (coz it’s a strange year) we decided to try and push ourselves, put what we’ve been learning into practise and see if we could make a gown in […]
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Latest GOWN update! As part of our 1760s dressmaking study, we’ve been replicating a 1760s nightgown and plan to release a book style pamphlet based on an original gown. To test out the instructions, we made this here dress. And very pleased we are with it too! […]
Read more →Your Feedback Needed: Having taken a sabatical now for over 3 years, and having spent much of that time in and out of museums and recreating original garments to understand their construction, we are nearly ready to come back to the world of costume making. However, we […]
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French Sack Back Gown: We’re turning attention to the 1760s at the moment and here’s a really simply sweet gown from the Palais Galleria. Check out the following images and also we have now created a 1760s Image page so you can find these images on that […]
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