Victoria and Albert Museum
I started this dress last October, I think, for an event, but decided it would be smarter, considering the weather forecast, to wear somethi...
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Today I'd like to share another project, long over due. This post has been sitting in my draft fold since I started blogging. Oh my! I do h...
*sigh* I did not get nearly as much done for my Wiliamsburg visit as I had hoped... It was one of those insta...
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Last week’s dress was very formal and monochrome, with extremely geometric, ordered lace. This week we’re going for much brighter colours, and a print that’s quite bizarre: literally. Let’s find out what you think about it! Last Rate the Dress: an 1890s reception gown in ivory with black lace You know what some of you really, really don’t like? Bows. Yeeeeeeeeep. Those of you who didn’t love this didn’t love it for the bow, or simply because it was generally too dramatic. But many of you did love it! And, as for me, well, my favourite part was the bow. The Total: 8.4 out of 10 Better than the dress before, but not exactly a smash hit. This week: a 1770s dress from 1708-10 bizarre silk lampas I love the way fabric got re-used in the 18th century, and this dress is a great example of that re-use: fabric from 1708-10, re-made as a fashionable dress in the 1770s. It’s one of the earliest 18th century fabrics used again for a full late 18th century …
Posts about 1770s written by Liz
The first of my forever furniture pieces <3
I made the coat, waistcoat and breeches
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Dresses in the 18th century were often designed to showcase the textiles. This particular textile is brocaded which means that the colored threads that appear in the floral motifs do not extend the whole width of the fabric. Looking at the reverse of the textile is the easiest way to identify this technique. This handwoven…
1770s Actress Mademoiselle Evrard by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (Neue Galerie - Kassel, Hessen, Germany). From the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=150966 1501X2000 @96 740kj.
Last week was all about making underwear for the striped robe à l'anglaise. I sewed a new big bumpad, shift and an under-petticoat. My old s...
1770s Varvara Petrovna Sheremeteva by ? (location ?). From Wikimedia. This is the largest version I can find.
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1770s (second half) Daria Ivanovna Uvarova by Fyodor Rokotov (State Tretyakov Museum - Moskva, Russia). From Wikimedia 1427X1827.
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