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Challenge #9: Black and white
May. 15th, 2014 10:45 amThis was a challenge that was really hard for me to come up with something for. You may have noticed that I'm not a great fan of black and since I had made a shift in another challenge I didn't feel like repeating myself. I have also run out of the linen thread that I use for hand sewing shifts. Then there's the fact that I came home from England on Saturday and that I was extremely busy both before and after that. The for example ruled out the obvious solution, which was blackwork.
But yesterday I came up with the idea to make a gollar, the shoulder cape worn in so many German portraits from the 16th century. You find them in Scnadinavia too, as can be seen on the top image, which comes from the fantastic site livinghistory.dk, which has tons of pictures of grave monuments and paintings from mainly Danish, but also Swedish and Norwegian churches
A Danish painting from 1575, showing a gollar:
This garment is probably what was meant by the term "kraga", which is found in swedish 16th century documents and could be made of wool or silk. Earlier images than that one shows gollars with lower collars, and since my Swedish 16th century dress aims for the 1560s I decided to make my collar lower too. I did keep the length though, so it goes down a fair bit. As you can see I didn't have the energy to dig up my blue dress and put it on, so my dress dummy "The Grand Sophy" (named after a novel by Georgette Heyer) got a smock on, on which I really have to starch and set the ruffle, and then the gollar.
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The inspiration for the decoration came from this 16th century German painting:
But yesterday I came up with the idea to make a gollar, the shoulder cape worn in so many German portraits from the 16th century. You find them in Scnadinavia too, as can be seen on the top image, which comes from the fantastic site livinghistory.dk, which has tons of pictures of grave monuments and paintings from mainly Danish, but also Swedish and Norwegian churches
A Danish painting from 1575, showing a gollar:
This garment is probably what was meant by the term "kraga", which is found in swedish 16th century documents and could be made of wool or silk. Earlier images than that one shows gollars with lower collars, and since my Swedish 16th century dress aims for the 1560s I decided to make my collar lower too. I did keep the length though, so it goes down a fair bit. As you can see I didn't have the energy to dig up my blue dress and put it on, so my dress dummy "The Grand Sophy" (named after a novel by Georgette Heyer) got a smock on, on which I really have to starch and set the ruffle, and then the gollar.
( Back )
The inspiration for the decoration came from this 16th century German painting: