Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Happy February! I've started this blog to share my works in progress, trials and tribulations of an artisan. I love historically inspired techniques be it smocking, embroidery, fabric manipulation, crochet or whatever comes my way. In the next few months I'll be trying to prepare for Osgoode's Medeival Festival, The Cumberland Farmers Market and assorted craft sales along with stocking my website and building costume inventory for sale/rent next year. Lately I've had a thing for purses, I've made (and sold) several and just can't seem to shake the bug. I'm planning to start a new silk one very soon as a donation for a charity silent auction so those photos will hopefully be coming soon.  My next few projects will likely be based around fabric manipulation and origami, aswell as ribbon embroidery. Not to mention medieval gowns and coifs made from assorted linen fabrics.

Here's a few of the clutches I've already made

The back one is a green linen with a few pleating and ruching techniques to add texture. The bronze one is a pleated Lamé with flowers along the frame. It's the same design I had used to make my sisters bridal purse in silver. The front one is an off-white bridal jaquard fabric that I added fabric flowers and embroidery too. Even the flowers were made using different techniques. The rust coloured satin were made using half circles folded stitched along one edge, gathered at the bottom to create each petal. The blue ones were cirles of synthetic fabrics snipped around the edges and melted by holding the 2-3 inches from a candle flame to curl and seal the raw edge.


Thanks for looking.
There are pleny of gowns, home décor, and miscellaneous items at my website.


No comments:

Post a Comment