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Exciting news – part 1
Back in December, with hopes that I’d be visiting the UK and Denmark in March/April this year, I submitted a proposal for a ‘lightning’ (10 minute) presentation at the Making Historical Dress Network workshop on Learning from Making, to be held in Leicester, UK, on March 18th. And I’m over the moon that my proposal…
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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…