Success

[frualeydis]

I have actually started working on my 16th century flemish dress from my discontinued dress diary again. Obviously I can't do any work on the dress itself or on the new corset, but nothing stops me from working on the cap. So now the lacy under cap is finished except from some starching that I might do tomorrow. I will update the diary, but I will probably not have the time for that until wednesday. On monday I will defend my paper, which actually is an almost finished chapter of my dissertation, on clothes and gender in the middle ages. On tuesday I will meet a woman who will turn my embroidered pieces of fabric into the hard cap that belongs to my folk costume. Yes, I've actually finished the other half of the embroidery. I will also buy some cotton tulle to make the "stycke", a lacy piece of fabric that is placed under the cap. You can see examples of this type of cap and the "stycke" here.
I'm invited to a wedding on the 22nd of may and if I go I want to wear my folk costume and being married I really should have a cap. The technique used for the lace is to fill the small hexagons of the tulle with several stitches in white linen thread. I have never done anything like that before but, as I always say: "How hard can it be?". A born optimist.

Comments

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

so the shape of the folk costume makes it possible to wear when pregnant? Mine doesn't which sounds somewhat historically obscure, allthough i think that several other ones from around here is better on that... does it have front lacon og a high waist or what?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Nope, not without some serious changes, but I won't be pregnant the 22 of May.

Eva

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

ahh! that explained it all.