Brand New Course Created! We know many have studied and are teaching the later part of the 18th century – but our study of mantuas – and our love for the first half of the 18th c has led us to create this course on how to […]
Read more →Our Online School is starting to get there! We know we’ve not posted loads about this – to be honest we’ve been busy creating the content for the first course! But The Georgian Costume Study Centre is now up and running – with NO courses as of […]
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So the last few years of seriously researching 18th century sewing techniques have finally paid off and produced a first book! This book studys and concentrates on a gown remade at some point during the 1750s and 1760s. The book provides a photo heavy study of the […]
Read more →Well guys, we are now LIVE and READY on Patreon! Here’s our welcome vid – just done while in the midst of clearing and preparing the shop for re-opening 12th April!
Read more →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 […]
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 […]
Read more →The Rhyme Of the Ancient Mariner The briefing was to create an Ancient Mariner’s Costume from an amazing selection of images that the client had dug out. To be honest, it made us want to research deeper into this type of working mariners costume as our research […]
Read more →Another Dress Gone…:( 1770s Sack Back These clients gowns do end up sitting in our lives for a while and therefore we grow quite fond of them. However, this is a goodbye to a beautiful (totally chosen by the client!) sack back gown, or Robe a la Francais, […]
Read more →Celebration!!!! Our New Premises! I can’t quite believe it, but we’re finally here, a new beautiful workspace, a rather exciting shop (oooooh and some exciting books on historical costumes!!!) and a brand new space. This is a photo of the empty shop when we very first got […]
Read more →The International Living History Fest! 8th – 9th April 2017 Ok, so what’s this event about? It is a 2 day, weekend event of pure history. Reenactment groups from all over the country will be making their way to Cressing Temple for this gathering – bringing their […]
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