What We Learned at Tudor Tailor!

[Cilean]

 


This time was more in depth on Fabrics, and how to minipulate fabrics to get the 16th Century esthetic! Which was right my my alley!  We had touched on a lot of things back in 2007, but 'getting' them was the issue. 

Now however? We have more people who are creating things from the past and so I show you some of the workshops were had during our day with Tudor Tailor!!




Oh?! You notice there is a 'purple' which was used by the common people! wills mentioned 12% of the clothing was of this color! It is called "Violet", so yes the common people wore this color and no it was NOT known as purple.



Here they used what we would call piping but they called it 


This is heat setting a design into velvet


I have just bought some designs myself and will be doing some sleeves to give a good how to on this subject!

Cilean