Naergi's Costuming Site

~Please also have a look at my other Star Wars costume reproductions! ~ Queen Jamillia – the embroidered underdress Note: If you don’t want to embroider the underdress by yourself, you could as well use this fabric from Spoonflower. The (in that case printed!) embroideries are accurate to the movie dress embroidery pattern; and you […]

~Please also have a look at my other Star Wars costume reproductions! ~ Queen Jamillia – the completed costume (Note: Latest pics of the costume being worn can always be found at the bottom of the page. So in case you’re just looking for new pics, scroll down and skip the rest!) I finished the […]

~Please also have a look at my other Star Wars costume reproductions! ~ Queen Apailana at Padmé / Amidala’s burial ceremony The costume as seen in the movie Picture of the original costume compared to my reproduction Pictures of the finished costume can be found at the bottom of the page. If you’d like to […]

~Please also have a look at my other Star Wars costume reproductions! ~  Padmé’s blue Tattooine Poncho Padmé Amidala – Star Wars Episode 2 – Blue Tattooine Poncho The blue Star Wars Tattooine Poncho of Padmé / Amidala is something I’ve been wanting to do for a LONG time for myself. I’ve made it in 2003 […]

J. W. Waterhouse’s blue Ophelia – a Pre-Raphaelite gown (respectively two dresses) This is a gown that I’ve been wanting to make for quite a long time – Ophelia, as seen in John William Waterhouse’s painting: Now, this is clearly not a ‚Medieval‘ gown. It’s not a ‚Fantasy‘ gown either. The correct term for a […]

Lord of the Rings costumes I’ve made over the years (Most of them for other people than myself, though) Most of these costumes required huge amounts of silk satin and silk velvet, of which I had to burn out the latter myself. As you can probably see, they were also made to accomodate a large […]

When I was painting some of the Unicorn tapestries to my living room wall in this project, I already thought about writing a studying page for the costumes in the tapestries and eventually make one or two of them – but that’s still a project for the future. When studying the tapestries I soon found […]

I actually managed to avoid Harry Potter since about three months ago, when I discovered this costume in a picture – until then, I had not seen any of the movies (I don’t count ‚hearing one movie on TV because I was busy doing something else than looking‘ as ’seeing‘!) nor had I read the […]

While the sleeves and forepart were very simple to make, I think they deserve a very own page. They prove that ’simple‘ does not necessarily mean ’not much work‘. I used Margo’s Lady’s wardrobe pattern for the forepart and narrow curved sleeves. I cut them in white rayon jacquard (the same as I’m planning to […]

I have also decided to attach the overskirt to the bodice, with a *not* at all historical (at least, from my knowledge, for that period…) waistband to be able to keep the cartridge pleating intact. Therefore, the trim from the sides of the overskirt will go right on to the bodice. Here’s the first picture […]