18th Century Bits: We first came here back in 2018 to study the Aqualate Hall mantua (which we called Shrewsbury – it seems to have officially been retermed ‘Aqualate Hall’ now by the unknown authorities up there in the museum world) From that first session we always […]
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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 →Just found this fabulous image in a book on John Gay’s Trivia 🙂 What a stunning load of early 18th century mantuas simply gliding around the park!
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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! […]
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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 […]
Read more →The Court Mantua vs The Stiff Bodied Gown Only in British Fashion! Don’t get excited -we’ve only just started researching so not all of our research will be up here yet, but we have embarked on a long ol’ journey to get our heads round a few […]
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 →Our Next Event! Thursday 24th November 2016 We’ve been invited to a private event at the Museum of the Order of St John’s so we just thought we’d put up a post for the event. The theme is ‘Hogarth’ and therefore is celebrating all that’s early 1700s. […]
Read more →A Client’s Pair of Stays… c.1750s Caught in a midst of trying to finish these stays off for a client, we thought while we had a coffee break to post up some of the photo’s we’ve taken of these Stays being made. The client has chosen the […]
Read more →1780’s Coats – The Study Book We decided to make a couple of research books really getting into the nitty gritty details of some of the coats we’ve been studying – particularly showing the inner details of tailoring and cut. The above image is a coat from […]
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