Well my dress is finished and trimmed and GORGEOUS.  I love it so much. Definitely the prettiest gown I've ever made.  I couldn't be more pleased with it!  I was supposed to wear it to the Grand Illumination in Williamsburg that is happening right about now, but the weather here is so rotten that we decided not to go all together.  I was moping ( Read more... )

Remember that crossbarred silk gown I was working on oh...a year and a half ago? I abandoned the project because I realized I wouldn't finish it before the event without doing a crappy job, and I was so in love with the fabric that I couldn't bring myself to deface it with my usual slap-togetherness ( Read more... )

The thing I love the most about costuming books is that every time I look at them I find something different.  Imagine my surprise when I was flipping through 17th and 18th Century Fashion in Detail last night and I came across this picture, which I have seen a thousand times.


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So, my post about cross barred silk was prompted by something.  Mostly by 10 yards of this stuff showing up at my door:


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