Historical Sewing Workshops

Please enjoy the exhibition from Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection THE VICTORIAN FASHION AND THE POETRY. Would you like to see our exhibitions in your ...town? Find a museum and let us know! #victorianfashion #queenvictoriafashion #fashionmuseum #fashionhistory #alexandrevassiliev #textile #collection #privatecollection

#onthisdayinhistory December 12th On this day in History December 12, 1861: A letter was sent from MEC to Mary, from Lynchburg.... "I send you 10 yards of gingham and 8 yards of brilliants at 25 cts per yard it is the most suitable goods that I can find in town for aprons, some of the stores haven’t a yard of Calico in them. The ladys [sic] here are buying up all the goods of every description and laying them by as though they never expected to have another chance to get any thing." #virginia #historicsandusky #lynhcburg #lynhcburgva #va #historic #historylover #history

One of my favorite evening gowns! This 1820’s gown of fine cotton muslin embroidered with crewel wool and trimmed with cherry red silk rouleau is a rare survivi...ng example of a fashion described in Ackermann’s Repository of 1824. Although made of a light sheer cotton, it’s heavy embellishments of holly & ivy allude to winter wear. A full description written by Cora Ginsburg can be found here https://1drv.ms/w/s!Arqk8kpVAN0nht48iUpwSGIVjCXImQ Also check out Romantic Recollections for a digitized version of this wonderful motif. #1820sfashion #crewelembroidery #cottonmuslin #holidayfashion #historicfashion See more

Early "patterns" were distributed in various journals (newspapers, magazines, etc) and needed to be "self-drafted". You created a scaled-up, life-sized pattern ...from the diagrams and then had to adjust it to your own measurements. Almost no construction information was given...it was assumed that you already had the needed skills!!! The fashion illustration and accompanying fashion description were all you had to go on....and, your own imagination, of course! See more

Let’s go back to the streets of Halifax in Yorkshire Northern England UK on a cold winters day back in January 1902. Original sound and speed editing: Guy Jone...s. https://youtu.be/P2kbrYZvzyk Credits: https://youtu.be/pG40dfGmRtQ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGKCtsKTDivk7-6k-w01sJg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bygonelives/ #History #Old #Oldfilm #Vintage #Yorkshire #UK

I never knew this

Especially for historical patterns! Except I would add more % of time for sewing because of the LONG seams and flatlining steps!

Got an old sewing machine case kicking around? Check out the unique idea.

The sized tissue paper pattern was introduced in 1863 by American inventor Ebenezer Butterick. It enabled, (along with the sewing machine, which had only become... affordable in the 1850s, though it was around long before that), enabled a much wider range of people to begin to dress more fashionably. This afternoon dress, which employs a lot of the popular fashionable tricks of the time is one that was created in 1874 using a paper pattern that had been bought in France. The heavy, upholstery-like trimmings and the decorative pockets on the over-skirt are high style conventions of the time. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Marguerite Martyn, American (1878 1948) Influenza era newspaper sketch: The Bal Masque, á la Mode, Oct. 22, 1918. Image c/o State Historical Society of Missouri (Click/tap for full image)

Sewing Workshop in Nuevo scheduled for Thurs, Fri, Sat, Oct 1st ,2nd, 3rd. PM me!

The problem with Victorian costume is telling the aspirational from the real. Fashion plates show us only what people might want to wear. Surviving garments are... vulnerable to the famous "survival bias". Even photographs suffer from the Sunday Best effect. And many early photographs are very formal: the requirements of the daguerreotype meant arranging oneself and sitting very, very still. It is a rare daguerreotype that shows the subject standing, or in everyday clothes. So I've scraped together, for the delectation of our Victorians, some well-heeled Scottish ladies of the 1840s, as they would have been dressed when receiving visitors, of an early autumn afternoon. Alll are, of course, Hill and Adamson photos.

Andy the Highlander with a kilt- donning demonstration! Andrew McAlindon Highlander Tours

And sew it goes. . . .