Needles flash and thread whips through silk as the milliners race to make a dress in a day, using only 18th-century materials and techniques. Watch part one of the project in this month’s vodcast.
Inspiration for the Modern Revolutionary
Needles flash and thread whips through silk as the milliners race to make a dress in a day, using only 18th-century materials and techniques. Watch part one of the project in this month’s vodcast.
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Natalie says
Thank you so kindly for this vodcast. So absorbing! Watching the initial draping of the dress back, can easily see how the narrow-width fabrics would speed the work and produce a particular look in the result.
Really looking forward to part 2,
Natalie Ferguson