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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!!
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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.
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Here they used what we would call piping but they called it
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This is heat setting a design into velvet
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I have just bought some designs myself and will be doing some sleeves to give a good how to on this subject!
Cilean