All the way back in 2009, nigh on an eternity ago, I posted a little something called The Bustlepunk Manifesto. Hardly a proper manifesto at all, it was really more of an excuse to post a picture of a really stunning Worth gown along with a bit of topical silliness, which sprung from some [...]
  | When you’re doing Victorian costuming, and you get to the part where you start doing trims, you will find that you use gimp. A lot of gimp. And of course by “gimp” I do not mean this: … but rather this: Gimp, sometimes referred to as cordonette, is very useful for covering up [...] OK, so not many pictures this week, sorry. But my camera utterly failed at getting closeup shots of the layered trims I’ve been working on, so … oh well. Anyway, that’s the big news for this weekend … I’ve been sewing on trim. Yards and yards of trim. (I bought a whole bolt of [...] So after last night’s post, I went back to Truly Victorian and poked around, hoping to get inspiration as to how I wanted to handle the bodice in my new, post-blue-taffeta reality. See, for the top I was intending to make this: I was going to recut the sleeves (bell sleeves? No thank you) [...]  I had a very trying weekend. First of all, my sewing machine started acting up. I need to open it all up and clean it, maybe that will help. But even more intensely annoying was the discovery that I cannot get any more blue taffeta, at least not the particular shade & brand I’ve [...] | |
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