Sage green silk fabric for my gown: Sewing Journal
When the fabric sample arrived, it seemed a perfect complement to the sage green silk hat that I trimmed last summer with pearls and cream ribbon.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
When the fabric sample arrived, it seemed a perfect complement to the sage green silk hat that I trimmed last summer with pearls and cream ribbon.
While attending the final sewing class in celebration of the Colonial Williamsburg Costume Design Center’s 75th anniversary, I learned all about pinballs.
Making the class more fun, tavern owners Jane Vobe, Christiana Campbell, and her daughter. Molly, also attended, while bantering tavern humor.
After perusing my homework from the Costume Design Center, I decided to finish covering a straw hat blank with silk, which I began in class.
The Costume Design Center taught us historically accurate stomacher embellishments for 18th century gowns, in this seventh class of nine in the series.
During Drummer’s Call weekend, my daughter and I took a class with the Colonial Williamsburg Costume Design Center on trimming hats.
Our class began with the history of this passementerie, followed by gorgeous examples of fifteen intricate variations. Then we made our own fly fringe by hand!
We took an 18th century sewing class on market wallets, work bags, and pockets for the 75th anniversary of the Colonial Williamsburg Costume Design Center.
The Colonial Williamsburg Costume Design Center taught us how to make Dorset and Death Head thread buttons in our 18th century sewing class.
Discovering that Colonial Williamsburg’s sewing class on 18th Century hand stitches while incorporating Diderot’s Encyclopedia, I immediately signed up!