Dress diary for ‚Queen Maeve‘ (in case you missed the description click here) 10th of March, 2006 Bought the velvet for the cloak. It was on sale at EUR8 / ~$10 and is a beautiful, silvergrey, thick rayon velvet. I’ll of course have to dye it, but it was so beautiful that I *knew* nothing […]
My Costumes
Necklace
Navigation for this costume: Introduction – Materials – Smock – Farthingale – Petticoat – Bodice – Skirtings – Rolled Sleeves – Overskirt – Forepart – Ruffs – Partlet and Sleeves – Jewelry making: Headdress; Necklace; Pelican Jewel; Sleeveband; Girdle; Wristbands; Fan – Finished gown – Funny Comments – Miss Starkie – Quiz To construct the […]
Queen Maeve
Queen Maeve / Medb from J. P. Leyendecker’s illustration Recommended music to listen to while reading this page, to put you in a mood likely to mine: In Extremo – „Liam“ Schandmaul – „Teufelsweib“ (I’m seriously thinking abut making some kind of music video with the finished costume) Navigation for this page: Introduction & historical […]
Overskirt
Navigation for this costume: Introduction – Materials – Smock – Farthingale – Petticoat – Bodice – Skirtings – Rolled Sleeves – Overskirt – Forepart – Ruffs – Partlet and Sleeves – Jewelry making: Headdress; Necklace; Pelican Jewel; Sleeveband; Girdle; Wristbands; Fan – Finished gown – Funny Comments – Miss Starkie – Quiz The overskirt By […]
Bodice
– Edited to add: During to a flood that hit my house, the fabrics and partially completed parts of this costume were destroyed. So until I decide to actually redo everything with new fabrics, the pages for this gown only serve as a documentation and memory of what I made; not as a dress diary. When […]
Sleepy Hollow Peach
Peach gown from ‚Sleepy Hollow‘ (In progress, that’s why the below shown navigation doesn’t completely work yet) One (though not the only) dress that I found interesting (though not most) since seeing the movie was this one here: Various pictures of the peach dress from Sleepy Hollow as worn by Katrina van Tassel / Christina […]
Elisabeth of Bavaria
– Edited to add: During to a flood that hit my house, the fabrics and partially completed parts of this costume were destroyed. So until I decide to actually redo everything with new fabrics, the pages for this gown only serve as a documentation and memory of what I made; not as a dress diary. Navigation […]
Velvet – Dye & Paint
Note: In case you’re looking for a good fabric to make this dress, have a look at this fabric on Spoonflower. It’s not perfect – after all, it’s all printed and therefore doesn’t have the ‚velvet stripes‘ – but at least it has the correct width of the stripes (approximately 1/2 inch) and is black […]
Skirt
– Edited to add: During to a flood that hit my house, the fabrics and partially completed parts of this costume were destroyed. So until I decide to actually redo everything with new fabrics, the pages for this gown only serve as a documentation and memory of what I made; not as a dress diary. As […]
Sleepy Hollow Striped
Note: In case you’re looking for a good fabric to make this dress, have a look at this fabric on Spoonflower. It’s not perfect – after all, it’s all printed and therefore doesn’t have the ‚velvet stripes‘ – but at least it has the correct width of the stripes (approximately 1/2 inch) and is black […]