On a different topic while my mind whirs along without sleep... I went by Ninya's site again, chasing something else down, and finding this page with it's lovely outfit, again. It is the blue garment with embroidery she made up, 1590s style, that I had seen before in their book. Cool, I figured I would drool over the embroidery of the stomacher... ( Read more... )

For other reasons, I was just poking through Arnold's PoF 1560-1620 right now, and I found that image of the masquers dancing (fig 53 pg 11), which is where the shaping for the French farthingale is pretty much presumed to come from ( Read more... )

I want to thank all who commented about my loss of the ruff. salemkat at faire gave a suggestion that I could use it during Halloween, wearing it as the ghost of an Elizabethan who was burned in a fire! :-P ( Read more... )

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Well, while I am pondering what to do on sleeves, I figured I could at least share pics of my progress so far.


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Well, I have the outer sleeves cut out, but... now I am stumped on the boning for the sleeves. I put in one channel so far and stuck in my 1/4" flat reed, and saw that this reed will just not work. It makes a ridge that will not go away which is what the larger reed did in my French farthingale (but the skirt fabric should cover those ridges ( Read more... )

Despite the problems with the dyeing, I am nearly done with couching the backside piece. I've got boning cut, ground, and plastic dipped for the backside of the French farthingale (a step I had forgotten) ready for insertion. And the bum roll is ready. So, there is some good progress ( Read more... )

After dinner, I went back to my sewing room, to make up bum roll #2. ( how I made one behind cut... )

Well, I am trying to make a bumroll for myself. It is my first one, and I am not sure what I am doing. Yeah, that's right, my first bumroll, since I've always figured my ample bum was enough for the other Elizabethan style I wore. But this French farthingale really needs one, and so one will get made ( Read more... )

So, the waistband binding is sewn down, as well as one side of the back seam binding. I also managed to wiggle in the three 5/8" reed canes into their channels, which took awhile of wrangling. The canes were damp & soft, but they aren't lying flat, and I don't think they will or need to. But they do fit snugly in their channels, which is giving a ( Read more... )