Sort of finished

[frualeydis]

After taking in the corset twice I now have a comfortable corset that fits me. I need to shorten the boning at the sides and a little in mid-back (it's half boned). it was a good trial run for the coming effigy-style corset. Of course this one doesn't have tabs, which the effigy has and mine will, but adding boned tabs to the pattern isn't that complicated.
So now I'm going to shorten those cable ties and bind the bottom edge and making four eyelets for the shoulder straps and then I can start on my long-delayed tudor project. this is the main inspiration, although i twill have smaller sleeves since I'm remaking a c. 1300 sleeved surcoat into a tudor dress.
And yes, I will make a real noble tudor dress some day too, but this one has a giant beret!!

Comments

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

I love that portrait-- giant berets are a fun thing.

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Did you see the giant beret in one of the Kentwell Calendar photos???? Now that one WAS a giant beret!!!!!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, I must have missed that. Maybe because of all the other things I tried not to look at?

Eva

[dame-eleanor.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love that portrait too! Fascinating, all the layers under that beret! Will you line it with fur, as the portrait seems to show? How will you do the beret?? Really spiff! Can't wait to see. Best of luck!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I wish I could line it with fur, but it would take an awful lot of fur and apart from the cost I _hate_ sewing in fur, you get little hairs everywhere. At least from rabbit, which is what I have used most. Since the dress is a remake of a dress that is already fully lined with wool I will keep the wool lining. I don't think I can get wide enough sleeves for an exact copy, but there are other examples of dresses from that period with more modest sleeves. I'm thinking about lining them in brocade if I don't keep the wool lining, like this portrait (http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-a-3519.z) by Maerten van Heemskerck. Though that is a dutch woman I think I can take the liberty with the sleeve lining since there are examples of fabric lining also from England.
I plan to knit and full the beret, and at least one of the coifs will be like the one Ninya Mikhaila made (http://www.ninyamikhaila.com/middleclasstowergirl.html). I will probably have a "normal", rounded coif innermost and then a couple of wired coifs.

Eva

Eva

[tonyadmay.livejournal.com]

I like the fur accents on the dress - it makes me want to pet the portrait to see how soft it is.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I like them too, I may put a strip of rabbit on the inside around the edges, but I don't know, I don't have that much rabbit at home right now.

Eva

[(Anonymous)]

Very nice. Just don't reproduce her expression, she looks depressed. "How come the others get to play fairies and I have to stand in the background and be a champignon?" Sort of.
/Monika

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I now, she looks sad and sickly somehow. Maybe she tries to look pious?

Eva