Learning to do repousee work....Lots of chance to think through your hands at the 'Making Historical Dress' festival at De Montfort University. @serenadyer.bsky.social@sarahabendall.bsky.social#earlymodern
And the front is now in place...if it needs to be extended later, you will add in additional straps of fabric.
And now for the keynote we have been waiting for at 'Making Historical Dress'...@serenadyer.bsky.social and Brooke Welborn walk us through making an 18th century Mantua. ##earlymodern
Day 2 of the 'Making Historical Dress' conference at DMU in Leicester. Paula Hohti's keynote on recreating 17th century stockings from Turku in Finland.
Reconstructing a doublet from the Verney collection - redated to around 1637 - toile shows that it is probably for a child or adolescent - could be Mun Verney who had scoliosis.
@serenadyer.bsky.social up on stage now to tell us about learning through remaking.How do we regain access to the hands of tailors and those who sewed garments in the 18th century? Experimental history needs to step up to the task.
@sarahabendall.bsky.social#earlymodern clothing their shape. What were the physical limitations of these garments?
@sarahabendall.bsky.social wearing a full scale reproduction of the ''Lady Clapham' doll's Mantua. A wonderful way to discuss late 17th-century dress at 'Making Historical Dress and embodied relationships between wearer and dressmaker.
