Category: Accessories

  • Regency apron

    Regency apron

    A project from 2017 I needed an apron for the Jane Austen Festival as I help out in the kitchen for suppers and wanted to protect my evening dresses. In researching aprons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, there seems to be a number of styles. In the mid-late eighteenth century, before the fashionable…

  • Linen Cap

    Linen Cap

    A project from about 2016 – originally posted as a portfolio project but this WordPress theme doesn’t support portfolios. This linen cap is a very simple one, suitable for the late 18th and early nineteenth centuries. It was entirely hand-stitched from scraps of linen left over from a chemise. The fabric is from fabrics-store.com, and…