Fabric & Fiction

Leveling Up Your Regency Look Part 2: The Devil’s in the Details

If you’ve read Leveling Up Your Regency Look: Part 1, then you’re all ready to start building your Regency ensemble. You’ve figured out which part of the Regency you want to represent, and you’ve thought about how time of day, social situation, activities, and character might affect the way you dress. In this part, I… Continue reading →

June 25, 2018June 26, 2018

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Tambour Lace: Lesson 2

Welcome to Tambour Lace, Lesson 2! If you are just getting started, here is the link to Part 1, where you can learn the basic stitch, and how to finish the ends. Tambour Lace: Lesson 1 Now that you know how to get started, and do the basic stitch, you may as well start embroidering… Continue reading →

June 11, 2018June 10, 2018

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Leveling Up Your Regency Look Part I: Planning your Outfit

The Jane Austen Festival in Louisville is fast approaching! Are you looking to amp up your Regency costuming experience? Maybe you love the festival, but have never dressed up. Maybe you made a dress last year, and are now intrigued by the whole idea and want to know how to make it more authentic. Maybe… Continue reading →

June 4, 2018June 24, 2018

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Tambour Lace: Lesson 1

There has been enough interest in my new Tambour project, that I thought I would start putting up some how-tos! It’s not the sort of thing that I can do all in one go, so I will be putting up several lessons over the course of the next few weeks and months. I will be… Continue reading →

May 28, 2018June 11, 2018

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Ravenclaw 1870s Hat

The time has come! It is finished! Here we are, the final portion of my 1870s Ravenclaw-inspired outfit. You can read all about the gown that goes with this hat in my Ravenclaw Gown posts 1, 2, 3, and 4. As soon as I decided I needed a hat, I knew exactly what kind I… Continue reading →

May 21, 2018May 16, 2018

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Ravenclaw 1870s Gown 4: Bodice

Wow… what I had hoped would be another week or two of work on this bodice has turned into months. To be fair, not all of that was working on the bodice, since the bodice work ran into prep time for the Fort Frederick Market Fair, and I had to take a break from the… Continue reading →

May 7, 2018May 6, 2018

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Tutorial: Death’s Head Buttons

I have another button tutorial for you today! This is for Death’s Head Buttons, a lovely kind of thread-covered buttons that can be seen on clothes through the 18th and into the 19th century. They mostly appear on menswear, but I have also seen what look to be Deaths’ Heads on a woman’s spencer (the… Continue reading →

February 12, 2018February 11, 2018

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Ravenclaw 1870s Gown 3: Overskirt

Pant…pant…pant… It’s here! It has been six months since my last post about the Ravenclaw bustle gown due to more time-sensitive projects barging their way to the front of the line! When last we met here in Ravenclaw-land, I had just finished the underskirt, but that wasn’t the only thing going on the bottom half.… Continue reading →

February 6, 2018March 7, 2018

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Tutorial: Thread Shirt Buttons

Throughout the 18th century, as well as in the end of the 17th, and beginning of the 19th, men’s shirts were fastened with clever little buttons made of thread. These were simple to make with basic thread that anyone would have around the house. They were also durable through washings, and comfortable enough to have… Continue reading →

January 31, 2018January 31, 2018

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