Category: Regency
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Updating
I’m in the process of restructuring this website so I apologise for any messiness! When I set it up some years ago, I used the portfolio function and posted my work as projects rather than posts, but that doesn’t work very well so I’m in the process of redoing the project pages as posts, which…
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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…
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Linen shirt 1750-1820
Men’s shirts remained fairly constant during the eighteenth century. All fabric was hand spun and hand woven, and shirts were cut to make maximum use of the linen in a series of squares and rectangles. The construction is both genius and practical. Shirts were the main undergarment for men and were made of linen; fine…
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Handsewn 1790s dress
A project from 2016 I didn’t exactly start out to hand-sew an entire dress. However, at the time I was doing a fair amount of travelling so I took the bodice pieces with me and stitched on them here and there. When I’ve been home, I’ve been concentrating on writing, and I like to have…
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Regency Dress
A project from 2016 As well as a costumer, I’m also a novelist, and back in 2016 when starting my latest book, The Clothier’s Daughter, I began planning the cover as I knew I would be independently publishing it, and therefore had control over all the choices. Stock images of reasonably accurate Regency dress are rather hard…
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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…