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Swabian Gown #3- update

Posted by: Alysten on: December 1, 2011

Every once in a while I get to work on something neat for someone else. I am part of a team working on a Swabian dress for HRM Kiena of the East. My job is to assemble the pieces into a finished garment and create the undergarments and hat.  All of the sleeve beading and [...]

Dress diary- kitchen wear

Posted by: Alysten on: September 12, 2011

In my never ending quest for the perfect kitchen wear, I think I am going to go with this gown.  I like that the dress sleeves are short and the over-sleeves are pinned on.  This has great potential.  I have become of late, enamored of peasent/working class wear.  I guess that makes sense given how [...]



  • opusanglicanum: there is a c15th version, and the latest example (the one I used) was from richard dolby cook's dictionary of 1832, quoted in elizabeht ayrtons englis
  • Alysten: I've done several galentines that require that level of boning. But I haven't done one of those types of subtleties yet. I am hoping to attempt one w
  • opusanglicanum: havae you tried the seventeenth century thing where you bone out a whole chicken (that bits tricky as you have to bone it complete from the inside, in

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