The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

I have several unfinished partlet projects lying about the house which keep stalling out about the time I get to the place where I try them ...

In my real life my Clarence and I (April) work in Academia and he has just had a paper accepted at a conference in Istanbul this fall. I am ...

As I was working on the drawn thread embroidery of my Camicia a few days ago I came upon this glorious outfit courtesy of the Elizabethean ...

And over at Starlight Masquerade we find an unattributed portrait with a third black/dark partlet . I'd call that a pattern. Now I'...

I ran across a sample of the kind of work that made up those mats I mentioned in my earlier post. I found this on eBay See the simila...

Today I was looking at The Purple Files and I ran into another example of a sheer dark colored partlet and headscarf combination. I'v...

The hair ornament. The lace. I may not be able to resist this one. Portrait of Eleonora Ganzaga Pourbus Frans il Giovane, 1602-1603 Polo Mus...

Haven't you always secretly wanted one? Portrait of Victoria Colonna Cristofano Dell'Altissimo, 1552-1568 Polo Museum, Fiorentino In...

Now I'm moving on to the front...

Thing One: Artemisians are starting to scare me. I've been reading the project write ups the participants in the ACC are putting out on-...

As you can see, I have begun attaching the lacis squares together to create my first partlet. I'd been thinking that if I only stitched...

It seems I sadly underestimated the time it would take to reinforce the edges of my lacis pieces, mainly because I hadn't realized the e...

Oh how I love long weekends! Not only did I finish Boen's shirt, and loads of cookies, and have a scrumptious and relaxing holiday but i...

I admit that I am feeling the teensyiest bit guilty about this (it's too easy!) but I think I've found a way to test-run a lacis par...