Hand-painted silk for Private Lives: Part Three

[labricoleuse]

Recall if you will the super-exciting project we have in the works, the creation of custom silk crepe for our upcoming production of Private Lives at Playmakers Repertory Company.

I wrote the first post a while back, about the sample-creation process in which we determined techniques and media to use to get the results our designer, Jennifer

Comments

[outinthestorm]

Gorgeous! makes me want to make one of my own!
I'd love to see a pattern layout - it looks like you utilised the fabric really well!

[labricoleuse]

It is a bias gown, constructed from only three large pattern pieces. So in the flat layout image, the top section spirals around the body and folds over the shoulders around to the back, the second bit seams on at basically the whole sideseam, which wraps around the hips and across the front, and a third triangle of solid blue pieces in to make the hem level with the ground. If that makes sense.

[ladycelia]

Fabulous.