Fashion plates
Collection by Tara OfBuffalo
Fashion Plates and related materials such as dolls and fabric swaths
Round to Open Gown
My first mock-up of the round gown confused me. After I got it on Pollykin, I was trying to find out how the dress should open. The bodice of the flat pattern I was working off of (in Patterns of F…
Free miniature Book Printie of engravings of 17th Century Fashions by Wenceslas Hollar. Makes into a 1.5" book full size, and a 1" book printed at 1/2 size.
Fabric Patterns of the 18th Century
What fabric patterns can I use for 18th century clothing?
MaraRiley.netMaking an 18th Century Shift
Mara Riley's Costume Site
EXHIBITION
INTRODUCTION This exhibition is part of a larger project merging practice with traditional scholarship in researching dress history. Traditional literary scholarship is combined with object-based …
Rock, ärmväst, väst. Skiss förandringar. 1680-tal, 1700-tal, 1710-tal, 1720-tal, 1730-tal, 1760-tal, 1770-tal, 1790-tal.
Rustica Gallica / Country woman of France, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1643 - Rijksmuseum
The tale of the cursed banyan and other sewing projects
The pattern, a manteau-de-lit, bed-gown from garsault 1769. Lack of posts about sewing doesn’t equal not sewing at all. I’m trying to finish J’s banyan that I cut out two years ago. When I pulled it out again I couldn’t remember if I had abandoned it because I didn’t have enough fabric or if it was for another reasons. As it turned out, I do have enough fabric, but as the lining has a more narrow width than the shell fabric, there is a lot of piercing going around. Very period, very boring…
Midday - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
De collectiewebsite van Boijmans: ontdek de verhalen achter ruim 17.000 kunstwerken