Tag: Hand sewing
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My PhD project
I haven’t updated the blog for a while as 2024 and 2025 were years of major change for me. In June, 2024, I received the fantastic news that I’d been awarded a PhD scholarship at the Australian Catholic University in collaboration with industry partner, Sovereign Hill Museums Association. It meant packing up my life in…
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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…